Re: 2.6.12 breaks 8139cp

Felipe W Damasio
2005-06-23T13:06:35Z

Hi Pierre,

Pierre Ossman wrote:

>PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
>** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this
>** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
>** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary
>** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
>** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again,
>** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
>** so I can fix the driver.
>
As this shows on the 2.6.11 dmesg, and doesn't show on 2.6.12, could
be the cause of the problem.

Although 8139cp calls pci_enable_device correctly, it may be worth
to try the pci=routeirq thing and see what happens.

Cheers,

Felipe Damasio