Re: [RFC] disable_irq()/enable_irq() semantics and ide-probe.c

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Oct 09 2003 - 12:31:56 EST



On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> If you can't stop the NIC hardware from generating interrupts, that's a
> driver bug.

No it's not.

Think shared interrupts here.

Linus

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