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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 10:46:16 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: zzz crashing in current OR inthand_remove not removing handlers properly 
Message-ID:  <199905191646.KAA86243@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 May 1999 09:00:50 MDT." <199905171500.JAA22502@mt.sri.com> 
References:  <199905171500.JAA22502@mt.sri.com>  <5lr9ogzaqf.fsf@assaris.sics.se> <19990516235949.A18232@netmonger.net> 

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In message <199905171500.JAA22502@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes:
: The solution is to not poll and to make sure insertion/removal events
: generate an interrupt which can inform the card's interrupt handlers
: that there is no more card.
: 
: (That's one of the main reasons polling is a very bad idea.)

Agreed.  It is far better to figure out which interrupt lines are
connected and how.  I know the curretn code does a horrible job of
figuring these things out...

Warner


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