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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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This question belongs on -hardware.  Please note we have just finished 
going through this whole business, so forgive me if I am abrupt.

> How do you handle devices with tristate interrupts.  I guess this means
> that they can share a single IRQ line with other devices, I think this is
> also called wired-OR.

Don't guess.

Try asking questions that mean something.

Literally, "you don't", and "no they can't".

Wired-OR and tristate are not the same thing.

mike