Re: e100 in 2.6.15 fails unless irqpoll ist used

Andrew Morton
2006-01-11T18:25:56Z

Nils Rennebarth <nils.rennebarth@packetalarm.com> wrote:
>
> An upgrade from 2.6.14.3 to 2.6.15 on my testmachine disabled my network cards:
> no packets are sent or received.
>
> There is the following in dmesg:
>
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
> USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
> irq 11: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
> [<c012ae21>] __report_bad_irq+0x31/0x77
> [<c012aef4>] note_interrupt+0x75/0x99
> [<c012a9f0>] __do_IRQ+0x65/0x91
> ...
>
> Rebooting with irqpoll will make the network cards work. The above message will
> appeare nonetheless.

This means that your IRQ routing broke and the card's interrupt requests
are not getting through.

This is likely to be an ACPI regression. Please raise a report at
bugzilla.kernel.org, generate full `dmesg -s 1000000' output for both
2.6.14.3 and for 2.6.15 and attach them to the report, thanks.