Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] pcmcia: pcmcia_request_irq for !IRQ_HANDLE_PRESENT

[Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>]

Hi,

> When a driver calls pcmcia_request_irq with IRQ_HANDLE_PRESENT unset, it looks
> for an open IRQ by request_irq()ing with a dummy handler and NULL dev_info.
> free_irq uses dev_info as a key for identifying the handler to free among those
> sharing an IRQ, so request_irq returns -EINVAL if dev_info is NULL and the IRQ
> may be shared.  That unknown error code is the -EINVAL.
> 
> It looks like only pcnet_cs and axnet_cs are affected.  Most other drivers let
> pcmcia_request_irq install their interrupt handlers.  sym53c500_cs requests its
> IRQ manually, but it cannot share an IRQ.
> 
> The appended patch changes pcmcia_request_irq to pass an arbitrary, unique,
> non-NULL dev_info with the dummy handler.

Thanks for the excellent debugging. Your patch seems to work, however it
might be better to do just this:

Index: 2.6.13-rc3-git2/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.13-rc3-git2.orig/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
+++ 2.6.13-rc3-git2/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ int pcmcia_request_irq(struct pcmcia_dev
 	} else {
 		int try;
 		u32 mask = s->irq_mask;
-		void *data = NULL;
+		void *data = test_action;
 
 		for (try = 0; try < 64; try++) {
 			irq = try % 32;


Thanks,
	Dominik