On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:02:35AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
Normally nothing - in most systems the interrupt will not be shared
and/or the board irq_enable() operation will completely disable the IRQ
line. The main use case would be if the interrupt is shared and the
board irq_enable() operation doesn't affect other sources, though boards
may also decide that they can do without disabling the interrupt.
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