Re: [patch 2.6.18-rc1] genirq: {en,dis}able_irq_wake() need refcounting too

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:58:49AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> > It's not just "normal" mode operation that needs refcounting for the 
> > {en,dis}able_irq() calls ... "wakeup" mode calls need it too, for the 
> > very same reasons.
> > 
> > This patch adds that refcounting.  I expect that some ARM drivers will 
> > be triggering the new warning, but this call isn't yet widely used. 
> > (Which is probably why the bug has lingered this long...)
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> we should also add disable_irq_wake() / enable_irq_wake() APIs and start 
> migrating most ARM users over to the new APIs, agreed? That makes the 
> APIs more symmetric and the code more readable too.

That _is_ the API anyway.  set_irq_wake() was never intended to be called
directly from drivers.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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