Re: Today Linus redesigns the networking driver interface (was Re: tulip driver in ...)

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:17:06 -0400


Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:57:34 +1000
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>

I don't understand why selectively marking/not marking a BH doesn't
give you what you want.

Because the BH handler should run at some point --- either upon the
return from a system call, or from a return from some other interrupt
handler, etc. It just shouldn't happen *now*.

- Ted

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