How to catch interrupt

[Roman Kurakin]

Ok. Thanks for information. I guess I need to remove this code from my 
driver.
This code is part of cx(4) and ctau(4) drivers. These cards are legacy 
ISA cards,
IRQ line could be set any (from a definite set). The only reason why we 
probe
for IRQ is to write to the user messages that IRQ is not functional - 
most probable
it is assigned fot PCI/PNP. After we add this code calls to our tech 
support with
question why device is not working (due to this reason) decreased twice.

rik

Bruce Evans wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Roman Kurakin wrote:
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>>Bruce Evans wrote:
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>>> [using isa_irq_pending()]
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>>So spin lock should help me in some cases but there is other cases were
>>this wouldn't help or I miss
>>smth?
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>Right.  isa_irq_pending() only works right for isa devices at boot time
>(not for probing later).
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>>In this case if some driver will acquire interrupt while probing
>>and after this it will release it
>>(for example it will decide that this is wrong intr and will try other),
>>and after we will try to load
>>sio driver we may fail to load it case we would unable to check this
>>intr line.
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>sio only uses this mechanism to print a helpful (?) message about which
>irqs it found.  It gives priority to the irq resource.
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>There's really nothing better than actually setting up the irq and
>seeing if one arrives.  sio doesn't do this mainly because when it was
>written its probe was run before interrupts are fully unmasked (they
>were blocked by splhigh() until the end of isa_configure()).  npx used
>to have the same problem, but I changed it to use bus_setup_intr()
>normally.  This caused new problems which were only fixed recently in
>npx and are unfixed at lower levels.  The interrupt system still leaves
>edge triggered interrupt active after bus_teardown_intr().
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>If you don't know the irq number and don't trust the irq resource to
>give it, then there seems to be nothing better than trying all irq
>numbers until your irq is found or bus_setup_intr() fails.  There can
>be up to 193 (?) possible irq numbers on i386's.
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>Bruce
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