Re: Cannot unlock spinlock... Was: Problem in yenta.c, 2nd edition

Jan Marek (linux@hazard.jcu.cz)
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:07:02 +0100


Hallo,

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:59:49AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> linux@hazard.jcu.cz said:
> > Your hack is working for me. I got message: "IRQ storm detected on
> > IRQ 11. Disabling"
>
> > and everythink works OK. Spinlock was unlocked, procedure setup_irq()
> > ended and PCMCIA package works fine...
>
> > It is possible to add your patch to the kernel?
>
> Absolutely not. In 2.5, we may have some code to deal with IRQ storms, but
> certainly not like that.

OK... But shall I apply your patch on every kernel while not
exist 2.5 kernel tree?

>
> > But I don't know, what device asserted IRQ 11 to start the IRQ storm..
>
> What other PCI devices claim to be on IRQ 11? Do you have ACPI enabled (in
> the BIOS and/or in Linux)?

I have ACPI enabled and I'm attaching my lspci -vvv... Thank you
very much...

> --
> dwmw2

Sincerely
Jan Marek

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