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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Neil Brown wrote:
> It looks like an interupt is happening while another interrupt is
> happening, which should be impossible... but it isn't.

If multiple interrupts are hitting a single code path (like IDE irqs 14
-and- 15), you definitely have to think about that.  The reentrancy
guarantee only exists when a single IRQ is assigned to a single
handler...

	Jeff


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