Subject: Re: [PATCH] ks8851_ml ethernet network driver

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:03:15 -0700

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:38:36 -0700
Greg KH <[email-masked]> wrote:

> /**
> + * ks_irq - device interrupt handler
> + * @irq: Interrupt number passed from the IRQ hnalder.
> + * @pw: The private word passed to register_irq(), our struct ks_net.
> + *
> + * This is the handler invoked to find out what happened
> + *
> + * Read the interrupt status, work out what needs to be done and then clear
> + * any of the interrupts that are not needed.
> + */
> +
> +static irqreturn_t ks_irq(int irq, void *pw)
> +{
> +	struct ks_net *ks = pw;
> +	struct net_device *netdev = ks->netdev;
> +	u16 status;
> +
> +	/*this should be the first in IRQ handler */
> +	ks_save_cmd_reg(ks);
> +
> +	status = ks_rdreg16(ks, KS_ISR);
> +	ks_wrreg16(ks, KS_ISR, status);

if status == 0 or status == ~0 then device should not return IRQ_HANDLED.
In the former case, the IRQ is shared, in later case the device is not present
on the bus (hotplug).