Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:39:09 +0200 (MEST) | From | Enver Haase <> | Subject | Bug in request_irq() ? |
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Hi developers,
I have some NetMos card here: 2 parallel ports, PCI.
This card is somewhat funny. I believe it fires interrupts for nothing: I cannot boot Win98 when the Lexmark 4039 is turned on which is connected to one of the ports (it crashes).
Back to Linux (2.4.12, "ECP symbol name patch"):
When I configure the card to share the IRQ line with the NE2000 PCI clone, then the machine hangs as soon as the card is "ifconfig"ed.
When I configure the card to share the IRQ line with the onboard USB, then the machine hangs as soon as the USB driver is initialized.
When I configure the card to be have an own un-shared interrupt line, and let the NE2000clone and USB share a line, all works well.
Remember, there is no registered interrupt driver for PCI parallel port cards. I suspect request_irq() has a problem when a device wants to get an IRQ sharing it with a device that fires interrupts but has no own driver.
A work-around could be disabling interrupts in the parallel port driver, but that would mean it has to be initialized before all the other devices sharing the IRQ --- which is prone to errors.
This is all based on more observation than code-reading so there might be a better explanation: only I don't know it, yet.
Greetings, Enver
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