On 1/9/06, Sven Schuster <schuster.sven@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Arjan, > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:25:12PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven told us: > > you don't know which device generated the irq! > > All the kernel knows is that "irq 11 triggered". Not which of the two > > devices on irq 11 did that. > > just to clarify: this means the driver(s) which registered for that > particular irq need to "ask" their device whether it generated this > irq or not in some way, right?? Correct. > And how this is done is then device > specific, of course... Yes. > have a nice day :-) You too. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
