Re: de2104x: interrupts before interrupt handler is registered

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> You don't bother to read. The reported interrupt is WRONG, INVALID,
> INCORRECT, BROKEN, until __after__ the device is enabled. That means
> that one CANNOT put an interrupt handler in place before the
> device is enabled.

And my point is, even if you COULD put an interrupt handler into place 
before enabling the device, if the device can be in an unstable state 
such that the interrupt can't be acknowledged reliably, how can you 
handle it without causing an interrupt storm?

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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