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Subject: Re: iwl4965 detection problem
From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
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On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:10 +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Disable interrupts in the iwl4965 before calling request_irq() for
> the case that the previous OS or the BIOS left a pending interrupt in
> the chip. This behavior has been observed on some laptops such as T61
> Thinkpads and Toshiba Portege R500
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>

ACK.

Good catch. And it explains why it doesn't work _sometimes_ (although I
never have the problem on my box).

Thanks,
-yi