I'd like to have the self-IPI part, but I would _really_ really
prefer to not have the counter, until somebody convices me that it
has to be there (and that implies giving a reason other than "some
ne2000 card has problems", because the problems you see sound like
they might be problems for other people regardless of any io-apic
issues).
Ok, but one question, to a clueless driver developer, what should we
expect him to think that:
disable_irq(x);
... some stuff ...
disable_irq(x);
...
enable_irq(x);
... some stuff ...
enable_irq(x);
does? On the Sparc we treat it the way you think it should work
(enable_irq() turns it on and no depth checking is done) however our
case is different since we've written and maintain all our drivers and
like to not think of ourselves as clueless driver developers ;-)
Comments?
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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