On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:02:21PM +0530, Sandeep Kumar wrote: > I dont have an exact idea, what happens internally. But these > interrupts are time realted events and handling it sometimes later, > doesnt makes sense. Well, but it's necessary to handle them at some time. If I understand you correctly, your point is that the hardware device itself (not the PIC or the kernel) should decide when to resend the interrupt -- this sounds reasonable to me. > It would be something like " Placing an order for the food that you > want to eat after two days ". I think it's more like "Placing an order for the food you want to eat immediately but being forced to wait some time for the waiter to serve." :) Cheers! Erik -- Erik Scharwaechter http://diozaka.org GPG: 0x42B654AB -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
