[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] pcmcia: pcmcia_request_irq for !IRQ_HANDLE_PRESENT

Russell King rmk+lkml at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Jul 24 07:40:40 EDT 2005


On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:11:13PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Thanks for the excellent debugging. Your patch seems to work, however it
> might be better to do just this:

This can be racy if two drivers are simultaneously trying to request an
IRQ.  'data' must be unique to different threads if they are to avoid
interfering with each other.

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



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