Re: Serial IRQ detection: need tester

mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:37:32 -0500


Etienne Lorrain wrote:
...
> The current 2.1.91 serial IRQ detection is not really clean,
> and run not really as it should (the IRQ do not appear at
> the right place). I have rewritten it, using standart calls
> probe_irq_*(), it saves half a Kbyte and I think is *a lot*
> cleaner and simpler.

Something like this is long overdue, but Ted is understandably
paranoid about changing serial stuff. :)

The original serial irq probing was just plain broken,
as I discovered when I went to add IRQ probing to the IDE drivers.
That's when I found the bugs, fixed them, and released the
(now standard) probe_irq_* routines. Somebody else has done
further cleanup since then.

Perhaps it's time the serial code finally made use of the
standard probing stuff. ?

-- 
mlord@pobox.com
The Linux IDE guy

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