Re: [PATCH v3] [media] rc: Postpone ISR registration

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Mon Apr 30 2012 - 14:56:08 EST


On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 02:38:11PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 05:25:21PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > An early registration of an ISR was causing a crash to several users (for
> > example, with the ite-cir driver: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/972723).
> > The reason was that IRQs were being triggered before a driver
> > initialisation was completed.
> >
> > This patch fixes this by moving the invocation to request_irq() and to
> > request_region() to a later stage on the driver probe function.
>
> From what I can tell, it looks like v3 should do the job for all affected
> drivers.
>
> Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Jarod,

I was wondering whether there are any news about this patch. I've checked
linux-media tree, and it looks like it hasn't been applied.

Cheers,
--
Luis
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