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To: Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net>
Subject: Re: pccard not working on 4.0-RELEASE 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:34:39 +0100."
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:09:15 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003152031550.9627-100000@titanic.medinet.si> Blaz Zupan writes:
: I'm wondering, why use the management irq at all? Is polling in this
: situation really so bad? It really shouldn't matter much if the system
: detects the card removal right away or half a second later, does it?

For the install disk, it likely doesn't make sense to use the
management irq.  For most people, polling is sufficient.  The
management IRQ reduces the window where you can hang the machine due
to the driver talking to hardware that is now sitting in the user's
hands...

Warner


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