Re: [PARPORT] parport irq handling v2


Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:08:34 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Excuse me Alan, I can' t understand again :-( and I don' t understand the
>> differences between library and mid level driver very well :-((.
>
>
>Midlevel driver Library
>
> kernel kernel
> | |
> V V
> parport driver
> | |
> V V
> driver support code

Cool and clear ;-) Thanks.

>> parport_pc_irq() parport_ax_irq() but I can' t see real advantages. It
>> would be less clean I think.
>
>Yep now I've followed the code its a bit more sane than I first thought

;-).

>Surely its up to the hardware specific driver to check the irq and called
>parport_irq(port) if it decides there is an IRQ pending (indeed it may be
>just an inline to do port->cad->....)

So is this the semantic all you like?

                                unknown IRQ
                                |
                                V
                     enter parport_lowlevel_irq()
                           / \
                      / \
                     V V
the irq is generated from the parallel port can' t detect the IRQ
               | |
               V V
    call parport_generic_irq() and then exit istant exit

I am reimplemented everything following this scheme now.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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