Search Linux Wireless

Re: [PATCH v2] ath5k: don't enable MSI, we cannot handle it yet

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:57:39PM +0300, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> > MSI is a nice thing, but we cannot enable it without changing the
> > interrupt handler.  If we do it, we break MSI capable hardware,
> > specifically AR5006 chipset.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>
> 
> This is needed for all pci-e devices since enabling msi results no interrupts...
> 
> Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@xxxxxxxxx>
> 

This is likely caused by a bug being discussed on linux-pci right now.
Basically the way we're masking MSI can result in INTn interrupts
getting turned back on, with no handler attached.

http://marc.info/?t=121430463700001&r=1&w=2

regards, Kyle
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux