Re: [patch] ip autoconfig for PCMCIA NICs

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:22:46 +0100

akpm@zip.com.au said:
> Also, yenta_open() currently defers device initialisation to keventd,
> so there is a good chance that cardbus init hasn't completed by the
> time we hit ip autoconf, so the yenta_open_bh functionality is made
> synchronous.

That was async at Linus' request - if we register the irq early, some
boards die in an interrupt storm. Linux is currently fairly crap at
noticing and recovering from interrupt storms.

--
dwmw2




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