Re: [PATCH 1/2] PRUSS UIO driver support

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 18 February 2011, Pratheesh Gangadhar wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Pratheesh Gangadhar <pratheesh@xxxxxx>
> > +static irqreturn_t pruss_handler(int irq, struct uio_info *dev_info)
> > +{
> > +	return IRQ_HANDLED;
> > +}
> 
> An empty interrupt handler is rather pointless. I guess you really
> notify user space when the interrupt handler gets called, as this
> is the main point of a UIO driver as far as I understand it.

The UIO core code does this for you when the driver handler returns
IRQ_HANDLED, but the empty handler raises a different questions:

Is the interrupt edge triggerd or how do you avoid an irq storm here?
Usually UIO drivers are requested to mask the interrupt in the device
itself.

Thanks,

	tglx

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