Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] Input: snvs_pwrkey - only IRQ_HANDLED for our own events

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Jul 30 2020 - 02:06:12 EST


Hi Marco,

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 09:55:13AM +0200, Marco Felsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 20-07-23 10:43, Horia GeantÄ wrote:
> > From: Andrà Draszik <git@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The snvs_pwrkey shares the SNVS LPSR status register with the snvs_rtc.
> >
> > This driver here should only return IRQ_HANDLED if the status register
> > indicates that the event we're handling in the irq handler was genuinely
> > intended for this driver. Otheriwse the interrupt subsystem will
> > assume the interrupt was handled successfully even though it wasn't
> > at all.
>
> After checking the RM and the imx6qdl.dtsi I'm not very sure that this
> is right since the snvs-powerkey has a seperate irq-line. So we can be
> sure that this irq is for us. If this is the case we don't need to check
> the SNVS_LPSR_REG instead we only need to clear it.

Wouldn't we want to know if for some reason we get spurious interrupts?

Thanks.

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Dmitry