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To: tlambert2@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Problems with ata probing twice. 
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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 14:17:06 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <3B4A1087.49E2EB20@mindspring.com> Terry Lambert writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: > : The problem with this is drivers that can't share
: > : interrupts because there is no way to ask the hardware
: > : which of several devices caused the interrupt.  This
: > : means that it's an attribute of the driver, not the
: > : bus, so having the bus do this automatically would not
: > : be correct.
: > 
: > Give me an example of hardware that does this.  I know of no devices
: > in the tree that do this....
: 
: LANCE Ethernet?

So what happens when you lose an interrupt for one of these devices?
Does life suck?

Warner

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