Re: de2104x: interrupts before interrupt handler is registered

[Robert Hancock]

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> This started to happen in a lot of PCI drivers once it became
> necessary to call pci_enable_device() in order to make the
> returned IRQ values valid. This has been reported numerious
> times and has not been fixed. Basically, in order to get
> the correct value, one needs to disable the board in some
> unspecified way so it is not possible for it to generate
> an interrupt before enabling the board. With some devices
> this may not be possible!

What kind of board behaves that way? pci_enable_device just enables the 
device BARs and wakes it up if it was suspended, I should think that any 
device that starts generating interrupts from that must be quite broken..

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