Re: better leve triggered IRQ management needed

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>>> one user and the driver is properly written. Making request_irq() fail
>>    ^^^^^^^^_______ Must be a trick!
>>> would break existing and working setups.
>>>
>>
>> If there is just one user then it isn't shared! Get real.
>
> SA_SHIRQ does NOT mean that the irq is shared.
>
> It means that it's not exclusive, and that the driver is _ok_ with it
> being shared if that makes sense.
>
> 		Linus
> -

Yeah. You have been talking to too many lawyers! You are getting a
forked tongue!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.16.4 on an i686 machine (5592.89 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction, book release in April.
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