Subject: Re: Cleaning up isa_intr_establish - comments please
To: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/20/2000 14:08:25
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:32:01PM -0500, jchacon@genuity.net wrote:
> 1. Change all isa related interrupt establish routines to return NULL on
> configuration error cases (like dual assigned irq's) rather than panic'ing.
> 2. Start going through drivers that call the establish routines and fix them
> to check the return value and not attach if they can't establish.
>
> The only hole of course is that attach routines have no return value. However,
> if they don't finish attaching or sub config'ing children and notification
> to the user via printf() occurs there's not much more to worry about here.
>
> Comments?
Please make it so.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>