Re: [Fwd: i810_audio]

[Nathan Bryant <nbryant@allegientsystems.com>]

Doug Ledford wrote:

> Possibly.  If anything it's likely that either the orinoco or the i810 
> driver is not handling spurious interrupts properly.  Now, since I've 
> been using my i810 device in a machine that doesn't share it's 
> interrupt I can't *personally* vouch that it handles things properly, 
> but from looking at the interrupt handler code, it should.  The other 
> possibility is that the orinoco might enable interrupts on the pcmcia 
> slot before it actually registers its own interrupt handler.  If it 
> does, and the card already has the interrupt line lit up, then it can 
> generate an interrupt storm that looks like a machine lockup.  A way 
> to test that is to unload the i810 sound driver and anything else that 
> might use the interrupt the orinoco uses, then load the orinoco, wait 
> until it's fully up and running, then load the i810 driver and see if 
> things work that way.  If it does, then it's almost certainly an init 
> sequence issue in the orinoco driver. 

Forgot to mention, my machine is sharing IRQ 17 between a 3c905 and the 
i810. So it seems ok here. Perhaps there's a problem with the  orinoco 
driver's ISR.