hostap hangs in request_irq

[Bruno Randolf]

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i don't know if this is relevant to anyone except me, but to answer my own 
question, this is the solution i came up with:

the attached patch adds deferred initialization of interrupts, so that all 
devices have been reset properly before the irqs are requested:

this is a workaround for multiple cards that have to share the same hardware
interrupt line. when the system reboots, the firmware obviously still
generates interrupts even after a pci bus reset. these interrupts are never
acknowledged from the newly booted kernel, so the interrupt stays active.
when the driver initializes the first card, it tries to request this
interrupt from the kernel, but the second (not yet resetted) keeps the
interrupt high - this causes the setup_irq function in the kernel to hang
when it tries to restore it's spinlock (function spin_unlock_irqrestore),
dont ask me why (may this be a kernel bug?)...

the workaround is to reset both cards in the prism2_pci_probe as before, but
to request the interrupts later, after all cards have been reset properly.

if there is a more elegant way to do this (i guess so), i would appreciate any 
hints.

bruno


On Thursday 15 January 2004 14:58, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> hello!
>
> i have a mipsel (kernel 2.4.21) system with 2 mini-pci prism2 cards, both
> sharing the same interrupt. hostap and everything works fine when i power
> on the system.
>
> but when i reboot (without removing the power), hostap hangs after
> "hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wlan0" in the function request_irq. it
> does not do this when the cards have seperate irqs or with only one card.
> is there anything hostap could do to prevent this (like resetting the card,
> irq or something?), or is this a problem with the kernel?
>
> bruno
>
>
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