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From: "Nirranjan.K" <nirran@sasken.com>
Subject: how is TIMER_BH called
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:47:57 +0530
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I read that Bottom halves are called only at the end of slow interrupts not
after fast interrupts. Timer tick is a fast interrupt(SA_INTERRUPT - set).
Then how is TIMER_BH called ? Please clarify.

Thanks in advance,
Nirranjan.K