Interrupt API change

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040111005502.O22604 at gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
>> Heuristics
>> can then be built on this information to better detect things like
>> interrupt storms.
>
>That'a about all it can do.

Considering the fatality of interrupt storms, this alone is reason
enough to implement the change.

>In the non-shared case,
>individual handlers can better decide about interrupt storms in a
>device-specific way.

Considering that interrupt storms more often than not are caused
by driver bugs, expecting the driver to mitigate seems terminally
optimistic to me.


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