Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: Push the request_irq function to the end of probe

From: Keerthy
Date: Fri Jul 21 2017 - 00:46:10 EST




On Friday 21 July 2017 04:14 AM, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
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> On 07/20/2017 05:28 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:08:09 -0500
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>>> In general patch looks good to me, but it's really unexpected to
>>> receive IRQs while CPSW is probing ;(
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>> This is a poor expectation.
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>> Boot loaders and other entities can leave the device in any state
>> whatsoever.
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>> Furthermore, enabling an IRQ whose handler cannot properly execute
>> without crashing is wrong fundamentally. All data structures and
>> state must be set up properly before the IRQ is requested.
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>> Therefore this patch is correct and I will apply it.
>>
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> Thanks. Agree (it just has never triggered before, so I meant - unexpected
> from current driver code point of view ;().
> And I'm just worry that it might not be enough :(, especially for am335x.

I tried nfs boot on am335x-evm with this patch and it boots fine for me.

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