netdev - Re: [PATCH] ath5k: do not free irq after resume when card has been removed

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Date:	Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:32:37 -0400
From:	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
To:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...oscopio.com>
Cc:	ath5k-devel@...ts.ath5k.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lrodriguez@...eros.com, mickflemm@...il.com, jirislaby@...il.com,
	linville@...driver.com, johannes@...solutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k: do not free irq after resume when card has been
	removed

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:52:31PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> ath5k will try to request irq when resuming and fails if the device
> (like a PCMCIA card) has been removed.

That's not true, ath5k no longer requests an irq when resuming.

> This solves this issue defining a new flag for the status bitmap to
> indicate when irq has been successfully requested and does not try to
> release it if not.

I'd rather not fix it with a status bit.  What kernel is this against?

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

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