Re: pcmcia oops on 2.6.17-rc[12]

[Russell King]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:10:04PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2006-05-22 at 13:50 +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > The question I'm stuck with is: When is it valid to ask for a non-shared
> > IRQ, and get back a shared one. 
> 
> I don't think it is. The problem is that some PCMCIA drivers currently
> assume they can do so. The rules changed a bit over time on the hardware
> side.

As I've explained twice so far in this thread, this is not the case
with PCMCIA serial ports.  We always request IRQs with SA_SHIRQ, unless
someone from userspace comes along and explicitly clears the "shared
interrupt" flag via setserial.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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