On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> I have a follow up question regarding interrupt. I see many I2C bus drivers
>> request interrupt with flag = 0. Why not using IRQF_SHARED?
>
> Probably because that particular IRQ is only used by the I2C
> Controller. I'm not exactly sure that you're getting at? Why do you
> think it should be shared? You should only flag it as shared if it
> is.
However, that's something the driver can't know.
Sharing interrupts is an integration property. The same IP core may share its
interrupt on one SoC, and not on another.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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