Re: [PATCH]2.6.7 MSI-X Update

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 12:32:26 EST


Roland> As a concrete example, the e1000 net driver does
Roland> request_irq() in its e1000_up() function and free_irq() in
Roland> its e1000_down() function. Basically, the driver will do
Roland> request_irq() when the user does "ifconfig up" and
Roland> free_irq() when the user does "ifconfig down".

Christoph> Lots of networking drivers do that..

Yup, I just wanted to pick one definite example so I could point to
real function names, etc. (And also I wanted to pick a piece of
hardware that I happen to know is MSI-capable).

Thanks,
Roland
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