Re: [PATCH] Fix early request_irq

[Pantelis Antoniou]

Ingo Molnar wrote:

> * Pantelis Antoniou <panto@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi there
> >
> > The recent consolidation of the IRQ code has caused
> > a number of PPC embedded cpus to stop working.
> >
> > The problem is that on init_IRQ these platforms call
> > request_irq very early, which in turn calls kmalloc
> > without the memory subsystem being initialized.
> >
> > The following patch fixes it by keeping a small static
> > array of irqactions just for this purpose.
> >    
>
> this is quite broken. Those places should use setup_irq(),
> not request_irq().
>
> 	Ingo
>
>
>  
Sorry, didn't know about setup_irq.

Will fix.

Regards


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