linux-kernel - Re: PATCH: 2.6.26-rc8: Fix IRQF_DISABLED for shared interrupts

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Message-ID: <20080630152637.5dfc68f2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:26:37 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Stefan Becker <Stefan.Becker@...ia.com>,
	ext David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	ext Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: PATCH: 2.6.26-rc8: Fix IRQF_DISABLED for shared interrupts

> IMO, the safe thing to do is to block shared IRQs from being used as random
> sources.

All IRQs on most modern boxes go over the same bus, shared or otherwise.
If anything that should add to the noise.

Alan
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