Re: regression caused by: genirq: do not leave interupts enabled on free_irq

["Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>]

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 00:17 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >  > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >  >  > last week found:
> >  >  > after latest kernel kexec RHEL 5.1 or other stack kernel, the nvidia
> >  >  > forcedeth doesn't work anymore.
> >  >  >
> >  >  > I stared at forcedeth.c two days. and revert every patches about that
> >  >  > doesn't help.
> >  >
> >  >  So forcedeth does not come up again, when you kexec from linus.git
> >  >  into an older distro kernel. Or is it the other way round ?
> >  RHEL 5.1 kexec RHEL 5.1 : works
> >  RHEL 5.1 kexec linus kernel: works
> >  linus (after -rc2) kexec linus tree: works:
> >  linus  (after -rc2) kexec RHEL 5.1 : forcedeth will not come up
> >  linus ( before -rc2 include rc2) kexec RHEL 5.1 works
> >
> the forcedeth can not get IP address...

Sounds like you are not getting any interrupts when you receive a
packet.  (i.e. The interrupt line is staying disabled).

Is MSI an option here?  I'm wondering if we disable the MSI and
something is not enabling it.

Eric