[LAD] Re: [LAU] Thinkpad R60 for Audio Update - Firewire Conflicts with Audio

[Florian Schmidt]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Pieter Palmers wrote:

> The IRQ handler 'vectors' are called by the hardware, and these call the
> IRQ handler functions registered in the kernel. Ingo's patch makes these
> handler functions run in separate threads that are scheduled at a
> certain priority. These IRQ handler functions then determine what module
> the IRQ is for/from, and run the IRQ handler for that module, at the
> same priority as it was scheduled itself.
>
> What I propose is that the IRQ handler priority can be set for each
> module irq handler, instead of for each 'global' irq handler.

Yes, that would be nice. I'm pretty sure Ingo thought of this before himself. 
I suspect practical reasons [i.e. too much work] for this not being 
implemented. Am i right, Ingo [CC'ed]?

Regards,
Flo

P.S.: Took LAD/LAU/1394 from the CC list. dunno if Ingo is subscribed..

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