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    SubjectRe: [patch] io-apic-2.1.98-B
    On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 07:45:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > Quite frankly I think that anything that tries to count the interrupts is
    > a buggy approach.
    >
    > That's not how the traditional APIC works either: it doesn't count
    > interrupts when they are disabled. So if the NE2000 driver has problems

    The RT soft interrupt emulation in 2.1.9x+ does not, in general, support
    counting. Also enable_irq/disable_irq is binary for us.
    Unless there is a good reason, I'd prefer not to support anything more
    complex. If enable/disable nesting is supported and people begin to depend
    on it, we would need to make the RT layer more POSIX layer aware.



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