Re: Interrupt handlers in NetBSD 5.0

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:45:30AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Thank you for your information! One more question. If I want to defer a 
> hardware interrupt, how do I disable that interrupt until the deferred 
> interrupt handler gets executed. Not all interrupts are edge triggered!

That depends on your device, doesn't it? E.g. for a PCI device if you
really need to defer it, you shouldn't stop all other shared PCI devices
from being able to handle it.

Joerg