Re: 3c59x & Cat 4003 Ethernet Lockups

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 15:43:57 EST


Luuk van der Duim wrote:
>
> Mr. Mendelson,
>
> Does your 3c905B share an interrupt with another device?
> If so:
>
> You can, in Mr. Donald Beckers drivers, just increase the
> "Max_Work_At_Interrupt = 20;" statement to a 1000.
>
> This is a pragmatic fix but the driver is not ready for the
> shared irq case and Alan Cox has been nice enough to
> inform me that it would be a hard job to rewrite the driver
> to actually be able to share an irq with another peripheral.

If the vortex driver should not be sharing an interrupt, then SA_SHIRQ
should not be passed to request_irq() function... Does removing
SA_SHIRQ solve the problems?

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