Am Sonntag, 4. Juni 2006 18:29 schrieb John Que:
> I had noticed that the zd1211 driver does call request_irq() in
> zd1205_open(),
> file zd1205.c; grepping for request_irq() in the rewrite driver yields
> no results.
> (I looked at the rewrite version from a week ago but in this point it
> is probably the
> same).
> Why is this so ? I assume that the softmac layer does not call request_irq()
> on
> behalf of the driver because this is not supposed to be like it, as I
> understand
> its functionality. Can anybody briefly calrify this point ?
A USB driver never will request an irq. Interrupt handling is done in
the core usb layer. Individual drivers have no business there.
Regards
Oliver
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