Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:36:00 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>,
       Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>,
       Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] hardware irq debouncing support
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Hi!

> > > Ok, so the limitations of various chips vary a lot...which means that
> > > it's difficult to predict what IRQF_DEBOUNCED actually does.
> > 
> > The specific QOS achieved is system-specific; the term for
> > that kind of mechanism is "hinting".  It's very clearly defined
> > what the hint means .. but a given system might not use it.
> 
> I know that, but is "hinting" really what drivers need?
> 
> > The madvise(2) system call is a userspace example of hinting.
> 
> That's different. Ignoring madvise() hints might hurt performance
> slightly, but it won't result in any fundamentally different behaviour.
> 
> On the other hand, lack of debouncing might cause the gpio_keys driver
> to report 1000 keypresses instead of one when the user pushes a button.
> That's much more harmful.
> 
> So if someone goes and replaces the debounce timer in gpio_keys with
> this IRQF_DEBOUNCE flag, it might work very well on hardware which
> happens to use a 30 ms debounce interval, but will break horribly on
> hardware with shorter debounce intervals.

Right. So you don't _replace_ debounce timer, you just do both timer
and IRQF_.

> > > > Why require "software debouncing" if perhaps the hardware could do
> > > > it all for you?
> > > 
> > > Because of the "perhaps" part of your sentence.
> > 
> > I'm not sure which sentence you refer too, but the first
> > "perhaps" above is yours!  :)
> 
> I mean that it's difficult to rely on hardware that "perhaps" can do
> debouncing for you. I think many drivers need to know for sure.

Why? You write code as if no debouncing exist...


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