Messages in this thread | | | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: kernel-hacking-HOWTO: An lk primer seeks feedback | Date | Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:36:14 +0200 (MET DST) |
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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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