Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jan 2005 04:38:32 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: SCSI aic7xxx driver: Initialization Failure over a kdump reboot |
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:53:27PM -0500, Lukasz Kosewski wrote: > I have an idea of something I might do for 2.6.11, but I doubt anyone > will actually agree with it. Say we keep a counter of how many times > interrupt x has been fired off since the last timer interrupt > (obviously, a timer interrupt resets the counter). Then we can pick an > arbitrary threshold for masking out this interrupt until another device > actually pines for it. > > Or something. The point is, we need a general solution to the problem, > not poking about in every single driver trying to tie it down.
Something like note_interrupt() in kernel/irq/spurious.c?
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