Re: [patch, -rc5-mm1] locking validator: special rule: 8390.c disable_irq()

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:47:29PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> couldnt most of these problems be avoided by tracking whether a handler 
> _ever_ returned a success status? That means that irqpoll could safely 
> poll handlers for which we know that they somehow arent yet matched up 
> to any IRQ line?

But you may get random positive hits from this when a real IRQ for an
unrelated device happens to get delivered. We could poll enabled IRQs first
then disabled ones ?

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