From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] ip autoconfig for PCMCIA NICs
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:22:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29471.1003530166@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BD092A6.26A1CFE9@zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3BD092A6.26A1CFE9@zip.com.au>
akpm@zip.com.au said:
> Also, yenta_open() currently defers device initialisation to keventd,
> so there is a good chance that cardbus init hasn't completed by the
> time we hit ip autoconf, so the yenta_open_bh functionality is made
> synchronous.
That was async at Linus' request - if we register the irq early, some
boards die in an interrupt storm. Linux is currently fairly crap at
noticing and recovering from interrupt storms.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-19 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-19 20:52 [patch] ip autoconfig for PCMCIA NICs Andrew Morton
2001-10-19 22:22 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-10-19 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2001-10-20 3:24 ` David Hinds
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