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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>>>How about using a softirq then?  

>>   Using softirq for what?

>  For what you would otherwise want to do in the interrupt context.

>  If you want an example, then please have a look at phylib, where in the 

    No.  I don't feel like rewriting IDE/libata cores. ;-)

> interrupt handler you cannot even access the interrupt status register of 
> the originating device (there may be a number of them sharing the same 
> line too), because in general it is impossible to access the MDIO bus from 
> the interrupt context.

    Thanks for the example, though.

>   Maciej

MBR, Sergei