Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:28:28 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: sharing interrupt between PCI device |
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Nobin Mathew wrote: > Hi, > > I think this question is already asked in this mailing list and Sorry > for asking this again. > > My problem is this: > > I have two PCI devices ( also two kernel drivers for those) which > shares the interupt. When I remove one driver other device stops > working, which is happening due to pci_disable_device () in removed > driver. This call is disabling the shared interrupt.
pci_disable_device shouldn't be disabling the interrupt line, at least not in this case. Without more details on the platform or drivers, it's difficult to say why this would happen.
> > We can avoid this by just removing the pci_disable_device () in the > driver, but i dont think this is a good way (correct me if I am > wrong). > > Can you suggest some ways to overcome this issue.
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