Re: 2.6.15-ck1

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 18:13, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Yes, until some driver claims serio port interrupt is not acquired and
> thus available for others.
> 
> I would say we could bump the timer as high as 5 seconds for
> hotplugging. It may give delay with some KVMs, but only first time you
> switch to the box in question.

I would say you just should aquire the interrupt always. Running
a timer instead of just using the perfectly fine interrupt looks simply like 
a design bug, not a feature.

-Andi
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