PCI SIO devices hog interrupts, cause lock order problems

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Tue Aug 31 01:16:02 PDT 2004


At 10:30 PM -0600 2004-08-30, M. Warner Losh wrote:

>  : This could be vastly improved if the data structure puc uses were
>  : more intelligent.  Man cards could be described simply by their
>  : PCI ID and "fill resource #1 with sio ports" rather than the very
>  : space consuming and errorprone stuff we do now.
>
>  The stuff we do now is trying to be too smart.  Most single port cards
>  are like phk says, but multiport is where things really go wonkies...

	Go wonkies?!?  OMG ROTFLMAOTIPMTU!!!

	I think this *has* to qualify as the funniest thing I have ever 
heard you say or seen you type!

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