[PATCH] [staging] lirc_serial: allocate irq at init time
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Tue Jul 5 17:21:19 UTC 2011
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 03:31:46PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> There's really no good reason not to just grab the desired IRQ at driver
> init time, instead of every time the lirc device node is accessed. This
> also improves the speed and reliability with which a serial transmitter
> can operate, as back-to-back transmission attempts (i.e., channel change
> to a multi-digit channel) don't have to spend time acquiring and then
> releasing the IRQ for every digit, sometimes multiple times, if lircd
> has been told to use the min_repeat parameter.
>
> CC: devel at driverdev.osuosl.org
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod at redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/lirc/lirc_serial.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++------------------
> 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
This patch doesn't apply to the staging-next branch, care to respin it
and resend it so I can apply it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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