Hello there,

I'm new to the list and I'm new to kernel module developing, too.

I want to handle an Interrupt on an ARM processor... (at91).

The Interrupt is already handled by the module at91_timer (compiled into kernel). the module registers it's interrupt this way:

ret = request_irq(AT91_ID_SYS, at91_rtc_interrupt,
   IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_SHARED,
   "at91_rtc", pdev);

Shouldn't it be possible to register a second interrupt handler for AT91_ID_SYS? Because that is a shared Interrupt... the handler has to check if it is the interrupt it has to handle, like that:

rtsr = at91_sys_read(AT91_RTC_SR) & at91_sys_read(AT91_RTC_IMR);
if (rtsr) {  /* this interrupt is shared!  Is it ours? */

why can't I reqister another handler, this is how I do it:

ret = request_irq(AT91_ID_SYS, timer_interrupt, SA_SHIRQ, AD_IRQ_DEVICE_NAME, NULL);
if( ret )
{
 printk(KERN_ERR "IRQ %d already claimed :(\n", AT91_ID_SYS);
 return ret;
}

that gives me just the message that the IRQ is already claimed.
Can somebody tell me that this is the right way to use shared IRQ's, or am I totally wrong?

Hello to the whole list and greets and thanks for reading :)

Ole




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