Interrupt Handler of Ethernet Device

Robert Clove cloverobert at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 08:11:34 EDT 2013


Thanks for the link.
I have another query too......should i ask right now?


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Rami Rosen <roszenrami at gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert,
> You should look for the request_irq() method in the driver.
> This method registers an interrupt handler.
> For example, you can look in:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> ...
> ...
>     if ((err = request_irq(nic->pdev->irq, e100_intr, IRQF_SHARED,
>                  nic->netdev->name, nic->netdev)))
>
> ...
>
> This means that e100_intr is registered as an interrupt handler.
>
> Best,
> Rami Rosen
> http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Robert Clove <cloverobert at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> >
> > I am new here.
> > I want to know the interrupt handler of the ethernet card and where can i
> > find the definition of it so as i can clear the flow of packet reception.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Robert
> >
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