Re: [PARPORT] parport irq handling v2


Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:16:33 +0100 (BST)


> So is this the semantic all you like?
>
> unknown IRQ

        ["unspecified architecture specific event"]
                                |
                                V
           ["unspecified architecture specific handler"]
> | "Its a parallel port"
> > V
> enter parport_lowlevel_irq()

                        (which as you showed may also make a decision
                          and return in itself. Deleted that path to add this
> / comment over it)
> /
> V
> the irq is generated from the parallel port
> |
> V
> call parport_generic_irq() and then exit

Yep.

The parallel port doesnt even need to know if it was an IRQ. Consider a
parallel port which is polled with 16K buffers for example.

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