Ar Llu, 2006-06-19 am 15:45 -0400, ysgrifennodd Mark Lord: > If the drivers are written "correctly", they shouldn't grab the IRQ > until someone actually opens the device. Which means they should be > able the share the IRQ, so long as both devices are not in use (open) > at the same time. This is not the case for ISA bus. Most ISA hardware is physically unable to share and the drivers for such hardware intentionally grab the IRQ at load time to avoid it being mis-reused. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html