netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/7] MIPS: Octeon: Fix EIO handling.

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Message-ID: <4B4645EE.5050302@ru.mvista.com>
Date:	Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:37:02 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:	ralf@...ux-mips.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] MIPS: Octeon: Fix EIO handling.

Hello.

David Daney wrote:

> If an interrupt handler disables interrupts, the EOI function will
> just reenable them.  This will put us in an endless loop when the
> upcoming Ethernet driver patches are applied.
>
> Only reenable the interrupt on EOI if it is not IRQ_DISABLED.  This
> requires that the EIO function be separate from the ENABLE function.
> We also rename the ACK functions to correspond with their function.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
>   

   I guess the subject should read "EIO", not "EIO"...

WBR, Sergei


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