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SubjectRe: kernel-hacking-HOWTO: An lk primer seeks feedback
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Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> What might be possible is 'lazy masking' [...]

Actually, the longer I think about it, the more it converges in complexity
to disable_irq (assuming useful semantics - you can do better if you make
the whole thing much harder to use, surprise ;-), so maybe this is the
answer ...

> It might even be possible to allow the other driver on a shared interrupt
> to continue to get interrupts with a scheme like this as long as an
> interrupt didn't come in for the device that's blocked.

Hmm, with a per-handler did_I_do_it function ? Sounds complex.

- Werner

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