Re: interrupt handling w/o handler?

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
11 Jul 1999 14:12:07 +0200


>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

Jeff> Is there a function available to drivers that allows something
Jeff> like: ... interruptible_sleep_on_irq (9); /* wait on IRQ 9 */
Jeff> ...

No

You have to register a handler for thaat, otherwise how are you
guaranteed that the interrupt is handled and the hardware doesn't keep
reasserting the same interrupt over and over again.

Jes

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