if an interrupt occurs too soon, the driver oops while trying to handle a shortage of buffers condition (caused by no buffers having been allocated yet).
commit a3322d3d34854edf27f7950efaa93e68f5f71ace Author: Chas Williams - CONTRACTOR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Jan 4 16:27:07 2008 -0500 [ATM]: [nicstar] delay irq setup until card is configured Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/atm/nicstar.c b/drivers/atm/nicstar.c index 14ced85..0c205b0 100644 --- a/drivers/atm/nicstar.c +++ b/drivers/atm/nicstar.c @@ -625,14 +625,6 @@ static int __devinit ns_init_card(int i, struct pci_dev *pcidev) if (mac[i] == NULL) nicstar_init_eprom(card->membase); - if (request_irq(pcidev->irq, &ns_irq_handler, IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_SHARED, "nicstar", card) != 0) - { - printk("nicstar%d: can't allocate IRQ %d.\n", i, pcidev->irq); - error = 9; - ns_init_card_error(card, error); - return error; - } - /* Set the VPI/VCI MSb mask to zero so we can receive OAM cells */ writel(0x00000000, card->membase + VPM); @@ -858,8 +850,6 @@ static int __devinit ns_init_card(int i, struct pci_dev *pcidev) card->iovpool.count++; } - card->intcnt = 0; - /* Configure NICStAR */ if (card->rct_size == 4096) ns_cfg_rctsize = NS_CFG_RCTSIZE_4096_ENTRIES; @@ -868,6 +858,15 @@ static int __devinit ns_init_card(int i, struct pci_dev *pcidev) card->efbie = 1; + card->intcnt = 0; + if (request_irq(pcidev->irq, &ns_irq_handler, IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_SHARED, "nicstar", card) != 0) + { + printk("nicstar%d: can't allocate IRQ %d.\n", i, pcidev->irq); + error = 9; + ns_init_card_error(card, error); + return error; + } + /* Register device */ card->atmdev = atm_dev_register("nicstar", &atm_ops, -1, NULL); if (card->atmdev == NULL) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html