On 25 Sep 1999 07:56:49 -0000 
 explorer@flame.org wrote:

 > Since IRQs are so scarce on my laptop, I was wondering if it would be
 > possible to modify the pcmcia goop to poll once every few seconds rather
 > than use an interrupt tht sits idle most of the time.

More often than that... probably twice a second.  You'd be really upset
if you pulled out a device and the kernel attempted to talk to it before
the next few-second interval was up.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>