On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 09:23 -0600, Dinesh wrote: > Hello there, > > My PCI device driver disables ethernet card IRQ upon loading and thus > causing ethernet to fail to connect to Internet. This is on Fedora Core > 5, 2.6.11 onwards. I have not checked any previous kernel versions. Most > unfortunate is that the irq is not being shared by the devices. But, my > driver implements SA_SHIRQ to enable sharing. > Do you think using spin_lock_irq_save and restore functions be of any > help? If so, where exactly do you think I should use them. Should it be > used in the interrupt handler method or in the open method where I have > request_irq? I read the interrupt handling chapter of device drivers 3rd > edition. I could not find a real good explanation in there. I doubt anyone can help you if you don't even say which driver this is, or how to get a look at the source code for it... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
