Re: [PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

2005-08-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:43:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Laughter was not wholly unexpected, though I wasn't joking. I'm trying > > to be realistic about the lifetime of any given hardware, and IOC4 is > > several years old at this point. Couple that with a sincere desire to > > preserv

Re: [PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

2005-08-22 Thread Brent Casavant
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Having an abstraction layer for a single client driver does seem a bit > pointless. It would become more pointful if other client drivers were to > pop up. > > Hence an option would be to merge an IOC4-specific driver which just does > what you need, no

Re: [PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Morton
Brent Casavant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Here is a set of patches that implements an external interrupt capability > > > in Linux, along with a device driver for a specific hardware device. I > > > submitted the patches several weeks ago, and

Re: [PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

2005-08-22 Thread Brent Casavant
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Here is a set of patches that implements an external interrupt capability > > in Linux, along with a device driver for a specific hardware device. I > > submitted the patches several weeks ago, and they drew no comments, which > > I take to be a good s

Re: [PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

2005-08-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Here is a set of patches that implements an external interrupt capability > in Linux, along with a device driver for a specific hardware device. I > submitted the patches several weeks ago, and they drew no comments, which > I take to be a good sign. Anyway, I'm It was not good sign in th

[PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

2005-08-19 Thread Brent Casavant
Here is a set of patches that implements an external interrupt capability in Linux, along with a device driver for a specific hardware device. I submitted the patches several weeks ago, and they drew no comments, which I take to be a good sign. Anyway, I'm hoping these can be picked up for -mm in

[PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

2005-07-28 Thread Brent Casavant
Hello, Here is a set of patches that implements an external interrupt capability in Linux, along with a device driver for a specific hardware device. External interrupts, in short, encompass the ability to respond quickly via an interrupt routine to an externally applied voltage signal. This fin