Re: PATCH: 2.6.10 - Misrouted IRQ recovery for review

[David S. Miller]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:21:49 -0500
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, it kind of does... I mean if register dump is somehow requested 
> from outside of interrupt context then you'll get dump of the next hard
> IRQ. The same goes for softirqs I guess.

Oh yes, that's right.  I remember one of the USB host controller
driver authors wanting to do URB processing in softirq context
and he couldn't because of the input layer using the pt_regs.
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