Re: pcmcia oops on 2.6.17-rc[12]
From: Florin Iucha
Date: Sun Apr 23 2006 - 21:01:17 EST
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 03:02:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> florin@xxxxxxxxx (Florin Iucha) wrote:
> > With 2.6.17-rc[12] I get the following oops:
>
> It's actually not an oops - it's a warning, telling us that i82365 is
> requesting an IRQ in non-sharing mode, but there's already a handler
> registered for that IRQ (which might or might not be shareable).
>
> Your machine should otherwise continue to work OK. Is that the case?
Yes, it works fine - it just looked scary ;)
> Anyway. We need to either a) make i82365 better-behaved or b) remove the
> warning or c) allow callers to suppress the warning (SA_PROBEIRQ?).
>
> I think c) - the warning can help find bugs.
>
>
>
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
>
> - Add new SA_PROBEIRQ which suppresses the new sharing-mismatch warning.
> Some drivers like to use request_irq() to find an unused interrupt slot.
>
> - Use it in i82365.c
>
> - Kill unused SA_PROBE.
[With the fix suggested by Randy] it is all quiet now.
Thanks,
florin
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