Subject: Re: Orinoco ISA or PCI adapter
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/11/2001 22:59:59 
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:08:48AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

 > Thanks.  What are the implications of the "can't share irq" message?
 > I'd hate to have a LAN controller that was polled instead of 
 > interrupt-driven.

The interrupt is used by the socket -- what's polled in that case
are the socket events, e.g. insertion and removal.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>