> turning off interrupts just masks them. the interrupt
> hardware should
> "latch" them and they fire when you reenable
> interrupts.
>
> You loose track of "how many" not if any
> happened...
>
> marty
Thanks Marty,
a follow up question,
why do we need to save the flags then ? if the interrupt hardware would
latch them ?
can we not just disable all interrupts ?
TIA,
Fundo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
