> As long as it's rare (which it is) i dont see a problem: you can enable > interrupts in the handler by using local_irq_enable(), like the IDE PIO > drivers do. That way it's documented a bit better as well, because it shows > the precise source of the latency, with a big comment explaining it, etc. I don't think it's as rare as you think particularly in embedded, and the moment you start explicitly using local_irq_enable() you've simply moved the underlying problem back and made it far harder to grep for. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
