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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kernel: shut up the IRQ mismatch messages (Re: wbsd: IRQ handler type mismatch)
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:30:23 +0000
Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:16:59 -0600
> Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > I'm seeing this on bootup on my laptop with recent kernels (currently
> > 2.6.20-rc6-mm3):
>
> The problem is various drivers legally validly and sensibly try to claim
> IRQs but the kernel insists on vomiting forth a giant irrelevant
> debugging spew when the types clash.
>
> Edit kernel/irq/manage.c go down to mismatch: in setup_irq() and ifdef
> out the if clause that checks for mismatches. It'll then just do the
> right thing and work sanely.
>
> For the current -mm kernel this will do the trick (and moves it into
> shared irq debugging as in debug mode the info spew is useful). I've had
> a variant of this in my private tree for some time as I got fed up on the
> mess on boxes where old legacy IRQs get reused.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
>
> --- linux.vanilla-2.6.20-rc6-mm3/kernel/irq/manage.c 2007-01-31 14:20:43.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3/kernel/irq/manage.c 2007-02-06 11:01:00.796928504 +0000
> @@ -372,12 +372,14 @@
> return 0;
>
> mismatch:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ
> if (!(new->flags & IRQF_PROBE_SHARED)) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ %d\n", irq);
> if (old_name)
> printk(KERN_ERR "current handler: %s\n", old_name);
> dump_stack();
> }
> +#endif
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
> return -EBUSY;
> }

hm, well, it's dependent upon dwmw2's
generate-a-spurious-irq-at-request_irq-time patch. Do we want to merge
that?
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