Re: [PATCH] xirc2ps_cs irq return fix

[Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)]

On Llu, 2003-05-26 at 02:00, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> My interpretation of it is the PCMCIA controller was triggering interrupts 
> on exit and the link handler for the card was still installed even after 
> the netdevice was down.

This is exactly what will happen all the time on PCMCIA devices. The
edge triggered interrupt will cause an IRQ to float around every remove
of the device on most hardware

The fix is basically correct, although the odd floating IRQ ought to be
cleaned up by the heuristics being fixed in the core IRQ disaster
detector

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