On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IRQs should be disabled before calling free_irq. Also flush pending > IRQs. Pasted the kernel log message for reference. > > kernel: irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) > kernel: [<c0252d2c>] __report_bad_irq+0x2e/0x6f > kernel: [<c0252f22>] note_interrupt+0x1b5/0x207 > kernel: [<c025258b>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x21/0x48 > kernel: [<c02534cb>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x8e/0xad > kernel: [<c0205650>] do_IRQ+0x6c/0x84 > kernel: [<c020425f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28 > kernel: [<c034f6f6>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x198/0x205 > kernel: [<c044686c>] ? menu_select+0x5c/0x78 > kernel: [<c0445a95>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x59/0x89 > kernel: [<c02029d7>] cpu_idle+0xae/0xcf > kernel: [<c0543102>] rest_init+0x4e/0x50 > kernel: ======================= > kernel: handlers: > kernel: [<f88fdd26>] (ath_isr+0x0/0x13a [ath9k]) > kernel: Disabling IRQ #17 > > Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This is 2.6.27 material, if you don't want interrupts disabled there as well. Luis -- 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