cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ed if_ed.c if_ed_pccard.c if_edvar.h

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <432ED22E.5010005 at samsco.org>
            Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> writes:
: Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:31:11AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > 
: >>In message: <20050919054051.GB65954 at ip.net.ua>
: >>            Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> writes:
: >>: About the commonality...  Usually foo_stop() (which is called first in
: >>: foo_detach() if you were talking about the detach) disables interrupts,
: >>: so foo_intr() doesn't usually happen.  From reading the code, I see the
: >>: same holds true for ed(4).
: >>
: >>Wrong.  Foo_intr() does still happen because other devices can
: >>generate interrupts...
: >>
: > 
: > Ah, you're right, I missed this bit.  :-)
: > 
: 
: Shared interrupts are only slightly less of an abomination as shared 
: ithreads =-)

Sadly, shared interrupts are a fact of life in the x86 world.  And
on platforms that support pci to pccard/cardbus bridges, there will
always be sharing of interrupts due to the architecture of the YENTA
bridges...

Warner