Hi, This is regarding the following code in kernel/irq/handle.c. Consider the case of a shared IRQ line, where two handlers are registered such that first handler does not specify IRQF_DISABLED, but the second one does. But it seems both the handlers will be called IRQs ENABLED (which is certainly not what the second handler expects). I also checked but could not find anything that stops me from registering two shared ISRs - one with IRQF_DISABLED & another without this flag. Am I missing something here? irqreturn_t handle_IRQ_event(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *action) { irqreturn_t ret, retval = IRQ_NONE; unsigned int status = 0; handle_dynamic_tick(action); if (!(action->flags & IRQF_DISABLED)) local_irq_enable_in_hardirq(); do { ret = action->handler(irq, action->dev_id); if (ret == IRQ_HANDLED) status |= action->flags; retval |= ret; action = action->next; } while (action); if (status & IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM) add_interrupt_randomness(irq); local_irq_disable(); return retval; } Thanks, Rajat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs