On Tue, 30 May 2017, Brian Norris wrote: > Sorry to respond to myself. Thomas, your reply to another mail in this > series helped me to notice: > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 04:19:58PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > > Side note: for issues like the first problem above, I wonder why there > > isn't a flag that once could pass to request_irq() that suggests the IRQ > > should be initially disabled? > > Is that what IRQ_NOAUTOEN is for?
Yes. > > I know this wouldn't work for shared > > interrupts (but request_irq() could reject that combination, no?) > > Hehe, but then I see this, for example, when grepping around: > > drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-omap.c: > > irq_set_status_flags(omap->irq, IRQ_NOAUTOEN); > ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, omap->irq, dwc3_omap_interrupt, > dwc3_omap_interrupt_thread, > IRQF_SHARED, > "dwc3-omap", omap); > > IIUC, that's quite broken, no? Indeed. Because the interrupt could have been requested by some other driver already. In that case IRQ_NOAUTOEN has no effect at all. We probably should check that in __setup_irq() and yell at people. Thanks, tglx