Re: [PATCH][RFC] per isr in_progress markers

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 15:40:35 EST

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On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 11:57, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> iirc IDE is capable of doing its own masking per device(nIEN) and in fact
> does even do unconditional sti's in its isr paths. So i would think it
> would be one of the not so painful device drivers to take care of.

If I remember rightly nIEN doesnt work everywhere. Also many IDE
interfaces may be using legacy IRQ wiring rather than PCI irq lines.

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