Re: pcmcia oops on 2.6.17-rc[12]

[florin@iucha.net (Florin Iucha)]

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On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 03:02:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> florin@iucha.net (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@osdl.org>
> 
> - 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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