Re: better leve triggered IRQ management needed

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Apr 24 2006 - 16:19:42 EST




On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> > one user and the driver is properly written. Making request_irq() fail
> ^^^^^^^^_______ Must be a trick!
> > would break existing and working setups.
> >
>
> If there is just one user then it isn't shared! Get real.

SA_SHIRQ does NOT mean that the irq is shared.

It means that it's not exclusive, and that the driver is _ok_ with it
being shared if that makes sense.

Linus
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