From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [RFC][BNX2X]: New driver for Broadcom 10Gb Ethernet. Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:40:54 +0200 Message-ID: <200708081040.55275.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <46B8EF13.40109@garzik.org> <20070807230458.GA9883@infradead.org> <20070807.160808.38709450.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hch@infradead.org, jeff@garzik.org, mchan@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eliezert@broadcom.com, lusinsky@broadcom.com, eilong@broadcom.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:57476 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751715AbXHHIlg (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 04:41:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070807.160808.38709450.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 08 August 2007 01:08:08 David Miller wrote: > From: Christoph Hellwig > Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:04:59 +0100 > > > Please take a look at kernel/irq/handle.c. The irq handler is > > always called with the right dev_id argument. Everything would be a complete > > nightmare to handle because you usually need to access the device private > > data to check whether the shared irq is for this device. > > Absolutely. > > I can't believe we're even discussing something so obvious and > wasting everyone's time. > > Ok, then something "so obvious" is explained wrong in all off the tutorials I read. So it was _not_ that "obvious" to me. ok? -- Greetings Michael.