Re: [PATCH RFT] irqchip: sun4i: Remove wrong irq_ack callbackimplementation

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Thu Jul 11 2013 - 12:14:02 EST


Hi Axel,

On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 10:35:29PM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> According to the datasheet[1], the Interrupt IRQ Pending Registers are
> read-only. The implementation of sun4i_irq_ack() looks wrong because it writes
> to these read-only registers.

Right, but the datasheet also says that these registers are "clear"
register, which might indicate that it's actually R/W.

I actually used one of the code dump from Allwinner for this driver, so
I'm not exactly sure about wether irq_ack is needed or not.

I'll test this and let you know.

Maxime

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