This is an attempt to fix a long standing open bug:
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1334
The interrupt handler checks for INTA being -1, apparently that means that the
hardware is gone. But the interrupt handler defers actual interrupt processing
to a tasklet. By the time the tasklet is run and checks INTA again, the
hardware might be gone and INTA be -1, which confuses the driver because all
event bits are set.
The patch applies to 2.6.37.
Signed-off-by: Indan Zupancic <[email protected]>
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
index 8d6ed5f..ae438ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
@@ -1973,6 +1973,13 @@ static void ipw_irq_tasklet(struct ipw_priv *priv)
inta = ipw_read32(priv, IPW_INTA_RW);
inta_mask = ipw_read32(priv, IPW_INTA_MASK_R);
+
+ if (inta == 0xFFFFFFFF) {
+ /* Hardware disappeared */
+ IPW_WARNING("TASKLET INTA == 0xFFFFFFFF\n");
+ /* Only handle the cached INTA values */
+ inta = 0;
+ }
inta &= (IPW_INTA_MASK_ALL & inta_mask);
/* Add any cached INTA values that need to be handled */