Re: pcmcia's use of IRQ_NOAUTOEN

[Dominik Brodowski]

Hey,

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:43:59PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You're right, it seems to make no sense. Or less than that.
> > 
> > Alan, what do you think?
> 
> It should be setting the correct NOAUTOEN bits so that the IRQ isn't
> randomly enabled as some hardware then crashes. How it ended up wrong
> upstream I don't know as it was tested and fixed the bug, so presumably
> the right version got tested or it happened to work back on the old irq
> code by luck.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/5/127 and then
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/26/485 talk a different language :(

> I don't think you are overlooking anything - there is no deep magic
> involved.

I'll just revert it.

Best,
	Dominik
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