Re: Yenta CardBus IRQ storm disabling interrupt

[Mike Cumings <mcumings@gmail.com>]

Hi Russell,

This is a different card (NetGear WG511U) than the USB card that
was discussed in the previous thread.  I haven't tried a 2.4.x kernel
yet, but that was on my list of things to do. :)  Unfortunately, this is
the only machine I've got which has CardBus so I'd have a hard time
attempting to reproduce on another machine.

Mike


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:53:45 +0000, Russell King
<rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:42:17PM -0800, Mike Cumings wrote:
> > In my Googling, I encountered a thread on January 10th of this year entitled
> > "yenta_socket rapid fires interrupts" (between Dick Hollenbeck, Linus,
> > and others)
> 
> Out of interest, is it the same cardbus card you're inserting into
> the socket as the problem mentioned above?
> 
> I think what is suspected is that the Cardbus card is holding its
> interrupt output active.  This normally shares the same interrupt
> as the yenta socket status change interrupt, and, since we're
> listening for interrupts from the card, it causes this problem.
> 
> A thought: can you reproduce this problem with 2.4?  Has this cardbus
> card been used with other Linux kernels?  On other machines?
> 
> I suspect what you'll find is that any Linux kernel on any machine
> with this card will exhibit this problem - which would prove my
> theory.
> 
> --
> Russell King
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Mike Cumings