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    >Maybe each driver could pass back a value indicating
    >
    >1) all done
    >2) N milliseconds more, please
    >
    >and you could keep calling until every driver says all done. The
    >all-done drivers would ignore any new interrupts. The Not-Yet drivers
    >could get the last few interrupts the need to complete. Of course
    >there would need to be an overall timeout. That would leave most of
    >the responsibility with the drivers... who know most of the true
    >requirements.

    Hrm... The interesting thing with this scheme is that it allows
    you to first block your queue, then let other driver do the same
    while your async IO completes, and then come back. Well... this
    could be an option to step "2" of my earlier proposal.
    This requires the device structure to keep track of which driver
    still wants to be called. It would only go to step 3 once all
    drivers have ack'ed step 2.

    Ben.


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