Re: [pcmcia] lost interrupt

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:14:09 +0000 (GMT)


> interrupts then. The driver has to have a full implementation of all the
> modem protocols in software and could definitely hold the system up. This

Only if it is badly programmed.

> to take this up with them. However this could start to come up more often as
> we see more of these in use on Linux in the future. We can't be responsible
> for other peoples' proprietary drivers, but it might be worthwhile to either
> try to detect bad drivers in some sense, or at least document the cause of
> the problem.

We have. The cause is "other peoples proprietary drivers"

Quite why on earth lucent dumped the entire modem into kernel space is beyond
me

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