On 18-Nov-00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17-Nov-00 Blaz Zupan wrote:
>> > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
>> >> > Ok, then it is the same as leaving the "irq" part out alltogether.
>> >>
>> >> Not entirely. IRQ 0 is actually the clock. I think it is there to allow
>> >> you
>> >> to edit the IRQ during the kernel config to set it to IRQ 10 if you need
>> >> t
>> o.
>> >
>> > Ok, so could this be the problem? I've been removing the "irq" part on the
>> > pccard line on all our boxes (and we have about 100 installations) and
>> > neve
>> r
>> > had a problem with it. I've never tried setting it to "irq 0".
>>
>> Removing it should be fine. I think it is more of a hack to allow an irq
>> setting to be there for the kernel config to pick up on and let the user
>> edit
>> .
>> :)
>
> Which is all great and good except that it is not mentioned
> in UPDATING and the release notes lie (irq 0 != poll mode).
Uh.. No. *sigh* The code checks to see if the specified irq passed in is 0
(since 0 can never be a valid irq, it is used as a magic cookie) and the device
goes into polling mode if it is. So both no irq and an irq of 0 provide
polling mode. Does that make sense?
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