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author | Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> | 2009-10-01 08:13:23 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-10-01 15:14:54 -0700 |
commit | 415e69e6574ab740e5db56152055eb899e7ac86e (patch) | |
tree | 970ca864f2187dbd3a32164f44eb5f9e2ac24af5 /Documentation/hw_random.txt | |
parent | 89e95a613c8a045ce0c5b992ba19f10613f6ab2f (diff) |
skge: use unique IRQ name
Most network drivers request their IRQ when the interface is activated.
skge does it in ->probe() instead, because it can work with two-port
cards where the two net_devices use the same IRQ. This works fine most
of the time, except in some situations when the interface gets renamed.
Consider this example:
1. modprobe skge
The card is detected as eth0 and requests IRQ 17. Directory
/proc/irq/17/eth0 is created.
2. There is an udev rule which says this interface should be called
eth1, so udev renames eth0 -> eth1.
3. modprobe 8139too
The Realtek card is detected as eth0. It will be using IRQ 17 too.
4. ip link set eth0 up
Now 8139too requests IRQ 17.
The result is:
WARNING: at fs/proc/generic.c:590 proc_register ...
proc_dir_entry '17/eth0' already registered
...
And "ls /proc/irq/17" shows two subdirectories, both called eth0.
Fix it by using a unique name for skge's IRQ, based on the PCI address.
The naming from the example then looks like this:
$ grep skge /proc/interrupts
17: 169 IO-APIC-fasteoi skge@pci:0000:00:0a.0, eth0
irqbalance daemon will have to be taught to recognize "skge@" as an
Ethernet interrupt. This will be a one-liner addition in classify.c. I
will send a patch to irqbalance if this change is accepted.
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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