Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2000 11:06:19 +0200 | From | Torben Mathiasen <> | Subject | Re: SA_INTERRUPT |
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On Sat, Sep 30 2000, Sandy Harris wrote: > Don Becker has some text at: > > http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html > > which includes a section: > > > Why SA_INTERRUPT in the SCSI drivers is a Bad Thing > > > ... it could potentially have a very negative impact on all other interrupt-driven > > kernel service. That includes just about everything ... > > > > I believe that very few complex devices can be correctly run by a device driver > > that uses SA_INTERRUPT. > > So I grepped drivers/*/*.c in the nearest handy kernel source, which happened to be > 2.2.16, and found 113 uses of SA_INTEERUPT, 64 in drivers/scsi/*.c and the rest spread > around. > > Do we have a problem? Should it be fixed as part of the cleanup before 2.4.0?
No. SA_INTERRUPT is a must today. Its much better to just do BIOS tweaks to force irq assignments. Thats just IMHO.
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