On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 8:49 AM Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Badly-designed systems might have (for example) active-high wake pins
> that default to high (e.g., because of external pull ups) until they
> have an active firmware which starts driving it low. This can cause an
> interrupt storm in the time between request_irq() and disable_irq().
Why is the fix not to move the request_irq() down to below the proper
initialization sequence?
That's what drivers *should* do: initialize their hardware first,
request interrupts only after that. Initializing the interrupt handler
before the hw is actually up seems wrong..
Linus
