yenta_socket "nobody cared - Disabling IRQ #4"

[Francois Romieu]

Jonas Oreland <jonas.oreland at mysql.com> :
[...]
> Report:
> 1) It works somewhat better. irq doesn't get disabled.
> 2) however wlan card get disfunctional. I haven't been able to contact my 
> wap
>   even if i'm standing on it...
> 3) unplug has resulted in kernel panic (twice)
>   (btw: how do I do to capture and report those)
> 4) when unlug don't produce kernel panic, then there is no way of 
> power-oning that card again.
> 5) booting with the card inserted makes it not power on when yenta_socket 
> is loaded (module)
> 
> comment: the card being disfunction could have something to with the driver.
> but before it worked sometimes...

static int
ath_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
[...]
        if (request_irq(dev->irq, ath_intr, SA_SHIRQ, dev->name, dev)) {
                printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: request_irq failed\n", dev->name);
                goto bad3;
        }
[...]
        athname = ath_hal_probe(id->vendor, id->device);
        printk(KERN_INFO "%s: %s: mem=0x%lx, irq=%d\n",
                dev->name, athname ? athname : "Atheros ???", phymem, dev->irq);

        /* ready to process interrupts */
        sc->aps_sc.sc_invalid = 0;

No sources for ath_hal_probe, too bad.

However, even without any sources, a driver which includes an "I am not ready
to process interrupts" flag and issue request_irq() without having disabled
the device first makes me a bit nervous.

--
Ueimor