Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: sc16is7xx: use threaded interrupts instead of homegrow

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 01:26:27PM -0500, Kuba Kicinski wrote:
> On 26 February 2016 11:52:28 GMT-05:00, Josh Cartwright <joshc@xxxxxx> wrote:
[..]
> > Instead, the driver needs to implement it's own oneshot-like
> > handling at the device-level: in the registered irq handler, capture
> > triggered interrupt state, squelch/mask, and enqueue the
> > kthread_work.  In the tail-end of the kthread_work, re-enable
> > interrupts at the device level.
>
> The problem there being IIRC that i2c doesn't provide async writes so
> we can't mask from irq callback. The only option would be
> disable_irq/enable_irq, right?

Ah, yes, that is a problem.  If by disable_irq(), you mean
disable_irq_nosync(), then yes, I think that'd work.

  Josh

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