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Re: [PATCH 02/13] ath5k: Maintain PISR snapshot

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2011/11/21 Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> .. replying to this after having not slept for > 24 hours, thanks to
> being in transit between the US and Western Australia..

Ouch ! I've done that a lot lately, without traveling :P

> On 20 November 2011 15:56, Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Since we dont read a snapshot of the interrupt
>> registers it might be possible to get a new interrupt
>> while reading them. In this case we should make sure
>> that we clear all SISR bits we get from PISR.
>
> Just to be clear, you _shouldn't_ clear the secondary status mask bit
> in the primary status register when you write back 1's to the primary
> ISR.
> Clear the bits that you read in the secondary status registers. If you
> clear the relevant bit in the primary status register then you may
> also skip perfectly valid interrupts.
>
> You don't need to check the secondary registers and the primary ISR
> bits for consistency. Just read what I did in freebsd-head :
> src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5416/ar5416_interrupts.c . it works fine.
>
>
> Adrian
>

ACK, thanks for the update ! It's just that docs say nothing about
when and how PISR gets updated so i tried to manually update it.

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Nick
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