Re: [patch 0/2] Run interrupt handlers always with interrupts disabled

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From: Russell King
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010 - 1:14 am

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:06:44AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

As was covered in previous discussions, what about drivers such as
SMC91x which take a long time to retrieve packets from the hardware?
Always running handlers with IRQs disabled will kill things such as
serial on these platforms.

So based on your description, I have no option but to NAK this.

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[patch 2/2] genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core code, Thomas Gleixner, (Thu Mar 25, 5:06 pm)
Re: [patch 0/2] Run interrupt handlers always with interru ..., Russell King, (Fri Mar 26, 1:14 am)
Re: [patch 2/2] genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core code, Thomas Gleixner, (Fri Mar 26, 4:19 am)
[tip:irq/core] genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts di ..., tip-bot for Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 13, 12:33 pm)
[tip:irq/core] genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core code, tip-bot for Thomas G ..., (Tue Apr 13, 12:34 pm)
Re: [patch 1/2] genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts d ..., Venkatesh Pallipadi, (Tue May 25, 1:32 pm)