linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: macb: clear interrupts when disabling them

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Message-Id: <20160115.144749.588820079930764465.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:47:49 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nathan.sullivan@...com
Cc:	nicolas.ferre@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: macb: clear interrupts when disabling them

From: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@...com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:27:27 -0600

> Disabling interrupts with the IDR register does not stop the macb hardware
> from asserting its interrupt line if there are interrupts pending.  Always
> clear the interrupts using ISR, and be sure to write it on hardware that
> is not read-to-clear, like Zynq.  Not doing so will cause interrupts when
> the driver doesn't expect them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@...com>

Applied, thanks.