Re: Threaded interrupts for synaptic touchscreen in HTC dream

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:04:10AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 July 2009, Mark Brown wrote:

> > source for a PMIC then we've got generic code that expects to just take
> > a gpio/irq and interact with it.

> Is there a problem with how it works now?  GPIO calls come in
> sleeping (e.g. over I2C or SPI) and non-sleeping (classic SoC
> GPIOs) varieties.  And it's not gpiolib which would handle any

I don't think there's any problem at all with gpiolib at all, it's just
an example user here.

> IRQ support ... it's the driver for the GPIO chip, which would
> expose both irq_chip and gpio_chip facets.  (Just like classic
> SoC GPIO drivers.)

Ah, yeah.  If the chip IRQ driver handles the waking of the core thread 
then this'd not be a problem.  For some reason I was thinking of the
driver using gpiolib when I read Thomas' post.
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