Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:03:59 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [2/9] Possible AMD8111e free irq issue |
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* Ian Pilcher (i.pilcher@comcast.net) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > > > >From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> > > > >It seems to me that if in the amd8111e_open() fuction dev->irq isn't > >zero and the irq request succeeds it might not get released anymore. > > Based on the wording above, I can't help wondering if this fixes a > problem that anyone is actually seeing.
I had same hesitation, but it's easy to see how lowmem could trigger this latent bug (so it's not a highly theoretical race condition, for example), and the fix is both quite simple and accepted upstream already. Anyway that's what the review cycle is for, it can be rejected.
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