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    SubjectRe: 3c59x vortex_timer rt hack (was: rt20 patch question)

    * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

    >
    >
    > On Fri, 12 May 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    >
    > > --- linux-rt.q.orig/drivers/net/3c59x.c
    > > +++ linux-rt.q/drivers/net/3c59x.c
    > > @@ -1897,7 +1897,8 @@ vortex_timer(unsigned long data)
    > >
    > > if (vp->medialock)
    > > goto leave_media_alone;
    > > - disable_irq(dev->irq);
    > > + /* hack! */
    > > + disable_irq_nosync(dev->irq);
    > > old_window = ioread16(ioaddr + EL3_CMD) >> 13;
    > > EL3WINDOW(4);
    > > media_status = ioread16(ioaddr + Wn4_Media);
    >
    > BTW, I originally thought about having Mark do this, but I'm nervious
    > about the side effects that this might have. Basically, it's doing
    > ioreads from the device while the interrupt could be doing iowrites.

    yes, that can happen - but since this is a timeout, this is rather
    unlikely in practice. Nevertheless it's possible, so i marked the code a
    hack.

    Ingo
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