Need help making sense of IRQ API

2007-06-29 Thread LOL ER
Hello, I've been trying to make sense of how the kernel (on an i386) calls __do_IRQ() from do_IRQ() for the past few days to no avail. After doing some research I found out that do_IRQ() calls the corresponding "highlevel irq-events handler", this lead me to believe that the kernel calls

Need help making sense of IRQ API

2007-06-29 Thread LOL ER
Hello, I've been trying to make sense of how the kernel (on an i386) calls __do_IRQ() from do_IRQ() for the past few days to no avail. After doing some research I found out that do_IRQ() calls the corresponding highlevel irq-events handler, this lead me to believe that the kernel calls __do_IRQ