Re: [PATCH] fix return value of i8042_aux_test_irq

[fernando]

On Fri, July 27, 2007 12:29 am, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > A small number of boxes do share IRQ12 and it was switched to shared
>> for
>> > them.
>> If that is the case interrupt handlers should be able to determine
>> whether
>> a certain interrupt comes from their respective devices, and return
>> IRQ_HANDLED or IRQ_NONE accordingly. Returning IRQ_HANDLED
>> unconditionally
>> when IRQF_SHARED is set seems strange. Is this behavior intended?
>
> Sometimes you simple can't tell and in those cases you have no choice.
As I mentioned in a previous email, i8042_interrupt considers that it
should not handle an interrupt when there is no data to read and,
accordingly, it returns IRQ_NONE in such cases. I was just wondering if we
could follow the same approach to make i8042_aux_test_irq more
IRQF_SHARED-friendly.

 - Fernando

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