MPC5200Lite PCI & IRQ

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Jun 18 20:20:30 EST 2004


On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 12:06 +0200, Bertrand Baudet wrote:
> Well, there is not only the IDE driver; the USB driver does it as well:
>
> In the 2.4.25, from the "drivers/usb/host/usb-ohci.c", in the 'ohci_pci_probe' function:
>
> And in the 2.6.7, from "drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c", in the 'usb_hcd_pci_probe' function:
>
> if (!dev->irq) {
> 	err("found OHCI device with no IRQ assigned. check BIOS settings!");
> 	pci_disable_device (dev);
> 	return -ENODEV;
> }
>
> There are probably other drivers that have the wrong assumption that IRQ 0
> is an unassigned IRQ.

They are broken. They need fixing. Please don't just work around their
brokenness -- send patches to the driver maintainer.


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