netdev - Re: delay via-rhine irq initialisation.

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Message-ID: <477C1F7D.2040201@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:34:21 -0500
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: delay via-rhine irq initialisation.

On 12/22/2007 10:36 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>> With CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ set, via-rhine complains during init.
>> (See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=377721 for a
>> report).
> 
> Absolutely we want to do this.  DEBUG_SHIRQ is only one of many reasons
> -- quite simply, you are fixing an order-of-init bug that leads to races
> and other badness.
> 

Such bugs seem to be more common than was thought.  hisax_fcpcipnp has the
same problem -- it assigns function pointers for driver interrupt processing
after it requests an interrupt.
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