Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:19:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: better leve triggered IRQ management needed |
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > one user and the driver is properly written. Making request_irq() fail > ^^^^^^^^_______ Must be a trick! > > would break existing and working setups. > > > > If there is just one user then it isn't shared! Get real.
SA_SHIRQ does NOT mean that the irq is shared.
It means that it's not exclusive, and that the driver is _ok_ with it being shared if that makes sense.
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