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RE: [PATCH] mwifiex: don't ignore SDIO interrupts during shutdown

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Hi Daniel,

>There is no point in the one case that you mention. But there is a
>very good reason to do so in the case that I am talking about. So why
>not do it? There is no harm to do it if the hardware is not present,
>right?

I got your point. We didn't test the behavior of sdio_read/sdio_write API's when hardware is not present. But they should just return an error.

>This doesn't make much sense to me either. Why don't we just disable
>the interrupt handler at the point when interrupts can no longer be
>correctly handled by the driver?

Agreed. Following change will fix the issue. Right? Instead of going for your earlier changes to ack interrupts until we disable them.


@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ mwifiex_sdio_remove(struct sdio_func *func)
 		mwifiex_init_shutdown_fw(priv, MWIFIEX_FUNC_SHUTDOWN);
 	}
 
+	/* Disable host interrupt mask register for SDIO */
+	mwifiex_sdio_disable_host_int(adapter);
+
 	mwifiex_remove_card(card->adapter, &add_remove_card_sem);
 	kfree(card);
 }


Thanks,
Amitkumar Karwar
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