Re: [PATCH-1] A new irq device interface

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le lun. 03 août 2020 01:33:53 +0200, a ecrit:
> Junling Ma, le dim. 02 août 2020 16:19:39 -0700, a ecrit:
> > You may have missed the part where I say let user side [/dev/irq*] 
> > translator
> > do the multiplexing.
> 
> I didn't but that looks like extra complexity, and makes the whole thing
> less robust: if the multiplexer gets to die somehow, everything dies.

Also, the kernel will anyway have to support shared irq, for its
own drivers. So let's just reuse this, I don't see why introducing
complexity in userland.

Samuel