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From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
	Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.17: IRQ handler mismatch in serial code?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:39:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FshOP-0000pd-No@be1.lrz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6pA6B-5K8-33@gated-at.bofh.it

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Ar Llu, 2006-06-19 am 17:52 -0400, ysgrifennodd Mark Lord:

>> Eh?  The vast majority of ISA bus devices have open-collector IRQ lines,
> 
> Not in my experience. In the network work at least very few are, they
> all drive the chip lines all the time. Thats why Don Becker made sure
> such drivers grab the lines at startup. Those which can share IRQ or
> move IRQ grab at open

There are thousands of NE2K-clones, the driver can't know if sharing the IRQ
will be OK for a given card. Is the change for sharing IRQs trivial enough
to allow an if/else based on a load-time module parameter?
-- 
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.

http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html

       reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2006-06-20 14:39           ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2006-06-20 18:03             ` Linux 2.6.17: IRQ handler mismatch in serial code? Russell King
2006-06-20 23:20               ` Bodo Eggert
2006-06-19 18:06 Chris Rankin
2006-06-19 18:47 ` Russell King
2006-06-19 19:40   ` Chris Rankin
2006-06-19 19:44     ` Russell King
2006-06-20  1:00       ` Adam Belay
2006-06-20  7:50         ` Chris Rankin
2006-06-19 19:45   ` Mark Lord
2006-06-19 21:06     ` Alan Cox
2006-06-19 21:52       ` Mark Lord
2006-06-19 22:21         ` Alan Cox

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