Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add pci shutdown ability

[Alan Stern]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Grant Grundler wrote:

> Agreed - but this is a different problem than "shutting down IRQs".
> My point was arch specific code knows how to mask all IRQs.
> irq_disable() is expected to work regardless of what state the
> driver is in.  On kexec "reboot", kernel drivers can unmask IRQs
> as they normally would during initialization. No?

One has to be careful when talking about enabling/disable IRQs, because 
there are (at least) two choke points: one on the device and one on the 
computer's interrupt controller.  Masking IRQs takes place on the 
controller, but I was talking about stopping interrupt requests at their 
source on the device.  It's the only way to avoid problems when IRQ lines 
are shared.

Alan Stern

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