Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 04:38:32 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Lukasz Kosewski <lkosewsk@nit.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SCSI aic7xxx driver: Initialization Failure over a kdump reboot
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:53:27PM -0500, Lukasz Kosewski wrote:
> I have an idea of something I might do for 2.6.11, but I doubt anyone
> will actually agree with it.  Say we keep a counter of how many times
> interrupt x has been fired off since the last timer interrupt
> (obviously, a timer interrupt resets the counter).  Then we can pick an
> arbitrary threshold for masking out this interrupt until another device
> actually pines for it.
> 
> Or something.  The point is, we need a general solution to the problem,
> not poking about in every single driver trying to tie it down.

Something like note_interrupt() in kernel/irq/spurious.c?

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