Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:35:53 -0700 | From | Li Juen Hwang <> | Subject | call request_irq before or after hardware initialization? |
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Hi,
Most 1394 drivers on Linux, ohci1394 for instance, calls request_irq() before initializing/enabling hardware chip. I'd like to reverse the order so that driver can exit the kernel without calling free_irq() if hardware failed. Is that ok? will it cause side effect? Thanks.
Li-Juen
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