Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759032AbZDWPDO (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:03:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754468AbZDWPC5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:02:57 -0400 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:53804 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753655AbZDWPC5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:02:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:02:53 +0200 From: Alessandro Zummo To: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hcegtvedt@atmel.com, vapier@gentoo.org, rongkai.zhan@windriver.com, balajirrao@openmoko.org, david-b@pacbell.net, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc_update_irq callable with irqs enabled Message-ID: <20090423170253.6b6dfd21@i1501.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: <20090423.235141.61509229.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> References: <1239036633-10032-1-git-send-email-anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> <20090409153921.04b6384c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090410005820.4fcfcc1f@i1501.lan.towertech.it> <20090423.235141.61509229.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed X-This-Is-A-Real-Message: Yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 890 Lines: 30 On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:51:41 +0900 (JST) Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > The IRQF_DISABLED fixes would be better regardless of the > rtc_update_irq() API change. And local_irq_disable fixes are not > needed (and should be reverted) if the API change was acked, but no > harm for short term fix. As I said in my last email to Andrew, I think we can call rtc_update_irq with irqs enabled and we don't probably need any IRQF_ to request_irq . Are you willing to make some tests in that direction with your drivers? -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/