Re: Sample implementation of a scheme to handle missing interrupts

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:50:23PM +0800, Zhao Forrest wrote:
> I'm new to sym2 driver, but have a generic question: is it safe to
> call an interrupt handler(i.e. sym53c8xx_intr() in this case) in the
> context of process(i.e. SCSI midlayer thread in this case)?

Not in general.  I should have disabled interrupts before calling into
sym53c8xx_intr() (or in my specific case, just called sym_interrupt()).
It very much depends on how the specific driver is written.

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