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Re: AutoIRQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Thu Apr 4 05:18:28 1996
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:55:33 +0100
In linux.dev.net, article <Pine.LNX.3.92.960331213119.2807A-100000@ermi=
ntrude.disaster.area>,
Philip Blundell <phil@tazenda.demon.co.uk> writes:
> [...] This patch converts
> the majority of the net drivers that used to use autoirq_xx() to use
> probe_irq_xx() instead. There are still a couple to do, plus one of =
the
> CD-ROM drivers.
>=20
Good idea. There's also the serial driver, which has yet another probe
routine. :-(=20
Hmm -- the serial driver should be properly modularized while we're at =
it.
A patch will follow shortly.
> Unfortunately probe_irq doesn't have any support for the "waittime"
> feature that auto_irq provides, and so a few drivers that depended on=
that
> may have been broken by this change.
It might be a good idea to add that parameter to probe_irq_off().
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