Re: shared interrupts

On Sunday 22 January 2006 12:52 pm, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> However, I am not sure why that decision was made.  It normally is
> possible to share linux interrupts with RT interrupts if the drivers are
> written in such a way so as to support pending the interrupt to linux
> when it is not for them.  I just assume it's because the comedi drivers
> don't support this pending feature.

And it's a pretty worthless feature.  The interrupt isn't RT at all if it 
drops out of RT every time the other device generates an interrupt.

-- 
Frank

Received on 2006-01-23Z23:03:59