Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 14:09:00 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> To: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys interrupt.h src/sys/kern kern_intr.c Message-ID: <199705271911.NAA04925@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 May 1997 20:07:40 %2B0200." <19970527200740.32152@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de>
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>> I assumed only one driver per interrupt line. > >Well, that's easy ... >But the original question was, whether the new shared interrupt >support might be applicable to ISA drivers, and the consent seems >to be, that it isn't for the reason you give below: I think that we should support it since I can see it being used not only in the sio driver but for other multi-function devices like sound cards. Having a separate driver for each function on a card is much cleaner than a single monolithic driver and since it seems easy to add the ability to handle this case (set a flag in the descriptor that says "run me again please"), why not do it? -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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