Subject: Re: results of the IRC debug patch
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Tim Kelly <hockey@dialectronics.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/04/2004 13:27:37
At 1:20 PM -0500 12/4/04, Tim Kelly wrote:
>At 1:12 PM -0500 12/4/04, Michael wrote:
>>> be blocked like IPL_BIO. Additionally, if the mouse event comes in
>>> rentrantly, the irq for that entire hardware device gets turned off until
>>> do_pending_int turns it back on.
>>... which doesn't seem to happen.
>>Hmm, I should really read some code :)
>
>Check to see if that the patch you're using has enabling the gc hardware
>irq after the kernel lock is acquired and released, as is already done with
>openpic.
Shoot - I meant to add that if the patch was applied, move the enabling
back to before the lock if there is a doubt as to whether my modifications
are mucking your hardware :-)
tim