Re: [PATCH] gpio: siox: indicate exclusive support of threaded IRQs

[Linus Walleij]

Hi Ahmad,

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:18 AM Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Generic GPIO consumers like gpio-keys use request_any_context_irq()
> to request a threaded handler if irq_settings_is_nested_thread() ==
> true or a hardirq handler otherwise.
>
> Drivers using handle_nested_irq() must be sure that the nested
> IRQs were requested with threaded handlers, because the IRQ
> is handled by calling action->thread_fn().
>
> The gpio-siox driver dispatches IRQs via handle_nested_irq,
> but has irq_settings_is_nested_thread() == false.
>
> Set gpio_irq_chip::threaded to remedy this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I think we concluded we want to apply this patch, but with
a fixed commit text, can you send a V2? (Or ask Uwe if he wants
to pick it up and write the text.)

Yours,
Linus Walleij