Re: [patch 2/2] genirq: Provide irq_wake_thread()

2014-02-15 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:55:19AM -, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > In course of the sdhci/sdio discussion with Russell about killing the > sdio kthread hackery we discovered the need to be able to wake an > interrupt thread from software. > > The rationale for this is, that sdio hardware can lack

[patch 2/2] genirq: Provide irq_wake_thread()

2014-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
In course of the sdhci/sdio discussion with Russell about killing the sdio kthread hackery we discovered the need to be able to wake an interrupt thread from software. The rationale for this is, that sdio hardware can lack proper interrupt support for certain features. So the driver needs to poll