linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] [media] rc: Postpone ISR registration

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Message-ID: <20120423183811.GC31244@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:38:11 -0400
From:	Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
To:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] [media] rc: Postpone ISR registration

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 05:25:21PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> An early registration of an ISR was causing a crash to several users (for
> example, with the ite-cir driver: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/972723).
> The reason was that IRQs were being triggered before a driver
> initialisation was completed.
> 
> This patch fixes this by moving the invocation to request_irq() and to
> request_region() to a later stage on the driver probe function.

>From what I can tell, it looks like v3 should do the job for all affected
drivers.

Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>


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