Re: New driver for Amplicon PCI272 and PC272E

On 02/07/05 15:09, Ian Abbott wrote:
> So interrupt driven commands are a bit of a no-no?  I thought crappy 
> unreliable interrupt timing would be better than even crapper process 
> scheduling timing!
> 
> There are a few existing drivers that make use of interrupt driven 
> commands for data acquisition:
> 
> 8255 - has some incomplete support for commands
> dt2814 - has interrupt driven ai
> pcl711 - has interrupt driven ai
> pcl812 and pcl816 - uses interrupt driven ai if DMA disabled
> pci818 - sometimes uses interrupt driven ai (depending on convert_src, 
> etc.)

Admittedly, in the case of interrupt driven ai, the data value is 
latched by a hardware signal, so perhaps that's not a valid comparison, 
in which case, only the incomplete support for commands in the 8255 
driver is a valid comparison.  That, and the amplc_pci230 driver that I 
forgot to mention - it does interrupt driven ao.

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Received on 2005-02-07Z16:15:44