Re: [ 57/72] genirq: Unmask oneshot irqs when thread was not woken

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Mar 06 2012 - 04:52:33 EST


On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Thomas, should we just plan on reverting that commit from mainline? It
> > clearly causes regressions.
>
> Give me a day or two to figure out why it breaks stuff. I have no idea
> why it should wreckage anything.

Hmm. This is interesting. The b43 driver has a primary handler which
can return IRQ_NONE. So up to that change the interrupt line was kept
disabled when that happened. Possibly the driver relies on that
behaviour. Digging for a machine with a b43.

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