netdev - Re: pull request: wireless 2011-11-22

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Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:57:44 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sgruszka@...hat.com
Cc:	Larry.Finger@...inger.net, linville@...driver.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, IvDoorn@...il.com,
	gwingerde@...il.com, helmut.schaa@...glemail.com,
	hedayaty@...il.com
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless 2011-11-22

From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:03:54 +0100

> The main problem here, that we have hardware (or firmware) that
> generate interrupt with empty interrupt status register, so we can
> not detect if interrupt is really generated by Ralink device.
> 
> Perhaps exist good fix for that problem, i.e. we can write to some
> register to stop hardware generating spurious interrupts, or exist
> other way than reading status register to find out if Ralink device
> generated interrupt. But that require detailed hardware knowledge,
> and I'm not sure if we ever can get such informations. Also this 
> could be a hardware bug, device just generate spurious interrupts
> and we can not do anything about it. I looked at driver from Ralink
> site, and it do exactly that, it return IRQ_HANDLED if status register
> is empty.

Then it is also buggy :-)

> Ok, I'm thinking about other fix now ...

Thank you.
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