netdev - Re: [PATCH] ehea: only register irq after setting up ports

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Message-Id: <20120424.003707.1304020185354100560.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:37:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ehea: only register irq after setting up ports

From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:46:29 -0300

> If we receive an interrupt too early before we set up ports in the probe
> function, there won't be any port ready to handle it.
> 
> Only registering the irq after the ports are setup fixes the problem,
> and works fine without losing any interrupts.
> 
> This causes crashes in some situations:
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Applied, thanks for fixing this properly.
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