Re: Shared Interrupts - PCI
Linus Torvalds (Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Thu, 29 Jun 1995 21:03:03 +0300
davies@wanton.lkg.dec.com: "Re: Shared Interrupts - PCI" (Jun 29, 13:57):
> > which doesn't work if two identical net devices share the same irq:
> > unlikely, but still)
>
> Actually, rather likely in the future: 2 ethernet cards, one on PCI bus
> 0 and one on PCI bus 1 can be allocated the same IRQ (they did in my
> DEC Prioris just now). Hence my original mail!
Ok, in that case we'd want to add the "data" field to the interrupt
handler regardless. Do you feel like you'd actually want to try this
out? (hint, hint, Linus wants to get out of doing it himself ;^)
Linus "get all the glory, do nothing" Torvalds