Hi!
> >No. The IRQ might be shared, and you get a slight problem if you just disabled
> >an IRQ needed to make progress for user space to handle the IRQ
>
> Two choices:
>
> - Disallow shared interrupts for usermode drivers.
That's hard... If you your notebook comes with soundcard and ltmodem
sharing the irq, and ltmodem only has userspace driver, you are
screwed.
Pavel
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