Ack: [Precise][SRU][PATCH 0/1] Bug #972723 - Issue with ite_cir driver

[Leann Ogasawara]

On 04/18/2012 12:09 PM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974664
I/we should modify the BugLink in the commit to point to 984387 as that 
is where we received the original test confirmation.  I'll get the other 
bugs dup'd to that as the master bug.

Acked-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>

Thanks,
Leann
> == Precise SRU Justification ==
>
> A bug in the upstream ite_cir driver has been triggered recently on Precise
> kernels, causing some systems (in particular Dell XPS 1340) to crash during
> boot.
>
> The problem is related to an early registration of an ISR during the device
> probe process.  This caused IRQs to be served before the driver initialisation
> had been completed.
>
> == Fix ==
>
> Moving the invocation of request_irq() later in the probe solved the problem.
>
> == Impact ==
>
> There are several users reporting the crash in their system while booting with
> recent Precise kernels.
>
> == Test Case ==
>
> Just booting triggers the problem.
>
> Luis Henriques (1):
>    ite-cir: postpone ISR registration
>
>   drivers/media/rc/ite-cir.c |    8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>