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Re: [RFC 00/10] make iwlwifi RT friendly

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On 12/15/2013 05:48 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> * Emmanuel Grumbach | 2013-12-11 10:33:35 [+0200]:
> 
>> RT folks have raised issues with iwlwifi wrt. RT kernel some time
>> ago. Johannes had a few patches to address this, but I had a few
>> concerns with them. This series tries to address the RT concerns:
>> * we don't do anything in hard-irq context besides stopping the
>>  interrupts in the device.
>> * the interrupt cause is read from the irq handler and is handled
>>  there.
> 
> Thanks for the patches. I haven't yet looked at them I doubt I manage it
> anytime soon. Could you please answer one question: Do you grab any
> locks in the primary interrupt handler?
> 
No we don't. The primary interrupt just tells the hardware to stop
firing interrupts and wakes up the thread as written above.
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