.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "SN_SAL_SWITCH_TO_INTERRUPTS" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME sn_sal_switch_to_interrupts \- Switch to interrupt driven mode .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp void __init sn_sal_switch_to_interrupts (struct sn_cons_port * \fIport\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIport\fB\fR Our sn_cons_port (which contains the uart port) .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP In sn_sal_module_init, after we're registered with serial core and the port is added, this function is called to switch us to interrupt mode. We were previously in asynch/polling mode (using init_timer). .PP We attempt to switch to interrupt mode here by calling sn_sal_connect_interrupt. If that works out, we enable receive interrupts.