netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dm9000: Get the chip in a known good state before enabling interrupts

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Date:	Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:22:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com
Cc:	ben-linux@...ff.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dm9000: Get the chip in a known good state before
 enabling interrupts

From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Jun 2011 21:18:09 +0100

> Currently the DM9000 driver requests the primary interrupt before it
> resets the chip and puts it into a known good state. This means that if
> the chip is asserting interrupt for some reason we can end up with a
> screaming IRQ that the interrupt handler is unable to deal with. Avoid
> this by only requesting the interrupt after we've reset the chip so we
> know what state it's in.
> 
> This started manifesting itself on one of my boards in the past month or
> so, I suspect as a result of some core infrastructure changes removing
> some form of mitigation against bad behaviour here, even when things boot
> it seems that the new code brings the interface up more quickly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>

Applied, thanks.
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