Option error

Russell King rmk+pcmcia at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Oct 9 05:19:34 EDT 2006


On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:07:58AM +0200, Darek Dwornikowski wrote:
> 
> >>>>> Software has to deal with the problem (checking which of several
> >>>>> IO devices actually yanked the IRQ line) but not all of the Linux
> >>>>> PCMCIA card drivers in 2.6 do this yet.
> >>>>>           
> >>>> yes, i am using yenta driver.
> >>>>         
> >>> yenta is the socket driver. That's not the problem. The warning comes
> >>> from the serial_cs driver, which is the card driver for serial port
> >>> cards. (Which is what the option cards look like.)
> >>>       
> >> i found that old serial_cs module had irq_list parameter. the new one does
> >> not have this parameter, maybe this could be a good dirty workaround. Iv
> >> got some IRQs free and could dedicate them for my pcmcia card.
> >>     
> >
> > If they're not connected to the PCMCIA bridge, they won't be able to be
> > used.  The available interrupts are really a function of the PCMCIA
> > socket bridge and its driver, not the individual card drivers.
>
> uhm.. so what should i do ? implement shared_irq in serial_cs.c ? this
> is the place to do it ?

serial_cs *always* requests shared interrupts.

What's the problem?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core



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