Re: [PATCH 1/1] [media] ite-cir: postpone ISR registration

[Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 04:44:44PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:54:07PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > An early registration of an ISR was causing a crash to several users (for
> > example here: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/972723  The reason was that
> > IRQs were being triggered before the driver initialisation was completed.
> > 
> > This patch fixes this by moving the invocation to request_irq() to a later
> > stage on the driver probe function.
> 
> Ugh. Looks like we actually have a similar problem with multiple lpc super
> i/o based CIR drivers. I'd probably move both the irq and io region
> requests in ite-cir, fintek-cir, nuvoton-cir, ene_ir and winbond-cir. If
> I'm thinking clearly, I've actually seen a very similar report for one of
> the other CIR drivers recently. Good catch. But yeah, lets do the same for
> all the drivers, and move request_region as well.

Yeah, I've realised the other drivers had the same issue.  ite-cir was
just for one that bit us first.

Anyway, I'll be sending in a minute another patch with your comments.

Cheers,
--
Luis