Re: [PATCH] marvell sky2 driver: fix irq number assignment bug

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 11:10 -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> Fix a minor bug that will display wrong IRQ number in ifconfig output.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
> index 423a1a2..879b0a4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
> @@ -4978,6 +4978,13 @@ static int __devinit sky2_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>  			goto err_out_free_netdev;
>   	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Need to set the IRQ # for the net_device here again after
> +	 * setting it in sky2_init_netdev() initially, because MSI
> +	 * will assign a new IRQ # to this PCI device.
> +	 */
> +	dev->irq = hw->pdev->irq;
> +
>  	err = register_netdev(dev);
>  	if (err) {
>  		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot register net device\n");

I think the consensus now is that net_device::irq should be left at 0
for devices that don't support manual configuration (ISA and the like).

Ben.

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