Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] MIPS: Octeon: Fix EIO handling.

From: Sergei Shtylyov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:37:02 +0300

Hello.

David Daney wrote:

> If an interrupt handler disables interrupts, the EOI function will
> just reenable them.  This will put us in an endless loop when the
> upcoming Ethernet driver patches are applied.
>
> Only reenable the interrupt on EOI if it is not IRQ_DISABLED.  This
> requires that the EIO function be separate from the ENABLE function.
> We also rename the ACK functions to correspond with their function.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <[email-masked]>
>   

   I guess the subject should read "EIO", not "EIO"...

WBR, Sergei