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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 22:08:18 +0200
From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>,
        current@FreeBSD.ORG, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu,
        Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys interrupt.h src/sys/kern kern_intr.c
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On May 28, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> If we do this, can the interrupt descriptor fiddling happen through a
> function call?  I don't want drivers to know what is inside this
> structure.  In fact I would be happiest if intrec wasn't declared in a
> public header file at all but was private to kern_intr.c

Yes, I agree. The interrupt descriptor is far to critical
to be directly manipulated from drivers. It should be 
opaque to code outside kern_intr.c, and I will change the
code into that direction with the next commit in that area.

Regards, STefan