On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:38:09 +0400
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As I pointed, I can rewrite the whole driver's initialization process,
> so that it looked like init/wait/exit loop, which can be processed at
> the module load and when fatal interrupt fires.
yes please do this.
>
> I do hope this will result in a progress. Arjan, do you aggree to add
> this patch to the current tree?
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c index 19a401c..9a7b64c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
> @@ -206,6 +206,8 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "manually disable the
> radio (default 0 [radio on])");
> static u32 ipw2100_debug_level = IPW_DL_NONE;
>
> +static int ipw2100_max_fatal_ints = 10;
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_IPW2100_DEBUG
> #define IPW_DEBUG(level, message...) \
> do { \
> @@ -3174,6 +3176,10 @@ static void ipw2100_irq_tasklet(struct
> ipw2100_priv *priv) if (inta & IPW2100_INTA_FATAL_ERROR) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME
> ": Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware
> restart.\n");
> + WARN_ON(1);
> +
> + BUG_ON(ipw2100_max_fatal_ints-- <= 0);
BUG_ON in interrupt context is just extremely hostile, since it means
the box is dead.
also I would suggest using WARN_ON_ONCE()
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