[PATCH] drm: Support drivers with threaded irqs

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Aug 9 17:40:55 UTC 2017


On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:38:29PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:17:54PM +0200, Sinclair Yeh wrote:
> > From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
> > 
> > See LWN article at
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/302043/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Deepak Singh Rawat <drawat at vmware.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh at vmware.com>
> 
> We definitely can't do this in general due to latency reasons.  Please
> read the kerneldoc of drm_irq_install and just roll your own. This also
> seems to like break every driver's compilation.

Oops misread, I thought you rename stuff instead of adding. I still don't
see the point - drm_irq_install happened because of the *bsd abstraction
layer, not because it's actually all that useful.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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