* Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> > couldnt most of these problems be avoided by tracking whether a handler
> > _ever_ returned a success status? That means that irqpoll could safely
> > poll handlers for which we know that they somehow arent yet matched up
> > to any IRQ line?
>
> I suspect the real solution is to have a
>
> disable_irq_handler(irq, handler)
>
> function which does 2 things
> 1) disable the irq at the hardware level
> 2) mark the handler as "don't call me"
>
> it matches the semantics here; what these drivers want is 1) not get
> an irq handler called and 2) not get an irq flood
ok, this would work. But there is a practical problem: only in drivers/*
there's 310 disable_irq() calls - each would have to be changed to
disable_irq_handler() [and i dont see any good way to automate that
conversion] ...
Ingo
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