Re: two CDU-535 inspired patches to 2.1.76

Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Fri, 02 Jan 1998 01:21:38 +0000


>I'd suggest just _not_ using autoirq from drivers/net/ - the whole this is
>just a historical placeholder from when the kernel didn't do autoirq
>natively. If you look into drivers/net/autoirq.c, you'll see the real way

Perhaps it's time we had another go at eliminating autoirq.c altogether.
There are a few drivers that use its more esoteric features, but the majority
should work with the generic auto-irq code with just a simple cut-and-paste
change.

p.