Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I triggered a WARNING while hacking on eeepc-laptop's >> rfkill-by-pci-hotplug. I saw "Trying to free already-free IRQ" in >> ath5k_pci_remove(), because the IRQ was already freed by >> ath5k_pci_suspend(). My changes to eeepc-laptop had allowed the PCI >> device to be removed while suspended. >> >> Are PCI drivers supposed to handle remove() while suspended? >> > > Yes. You found a bug in the driver. However it's not clear (to me at > least) whether the bug is that the IRQ is freed in the suspend method > or that there's no check for already-freed in the remove method. My > guess is the latter. > > Alan Stern >
The example in Documentation/power/pci.txt shows free_irq() being called in suspend (and request_irq() in resume). So the problem is in remove(). Perhaps I will try hacking fakephp to simulate this case, and see if I can find bugs in any other drivers :-). Thanks! Alan _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
