[2379] in linux-net channel archive
Re: AutoIRQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Sun Apr 7 01:15:40 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:17:47 +0100 (BST)
From: Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <96Apr3.105536+0100met_dst.2186-94+4@work.smurf.noris.de>
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hmm -- the serial driver should be properly modularized while we're at it.
> A patch will follow shortly.
Cool.
> > 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
>
> It might be a good idea to add that parameter to probe_irq_off().
Yes. I will see about doing that. I think, though, that in a lot of
cases there are better ways to wait for the IRQ than by using a timer
(eg, busy-waiting on a status bit). It would be good to use these
Philwherever possible.
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