* Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> [This patch *is* for mainline Linux]
>
> In commit 76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 lazy irq disabling
> was implemented, and the simple irq handler had a masking set to it.
>
> Remy Bohmer discovered that some devices in the ARM architecture would
> trigger the mask, but never unmask it. His patch to do the unmasking
> was questioned by Russell King about masking simple irqs to begin
> with. Looking further, it was discovered that the problems Remy was
> seeing was due to improper use of the simple handler by devices, and
> he later submitted patches to fix those. But the issue that was
> uncovered was that the simple handler should never mask.
>
> This patch reverts the masking in the simple handler.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
thanks, applied. This is for v2.6.24 too, right?
Ingo
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