On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > How about using a softirq then? > > Using softirq for what? For what you would otherwise want to do in the interrupt context. If you want an example, then please have a look at phylib, where in the interrupt handler you cannot even access the interrupt status register of the originating device (there may be a number of them sharing the same line too), because in general it is impossible to access the MDIO bus from the interrupt context. Maciej
