Robert Hancock wrote:
>
> It looks like wbsd is being loaded first, which being a nice PnP device
> sees that IRQ 6 is available and grabs it. Then the we try to load the
> floppy module (which is hard-coded to use IRQ 6) which fails because
> wbsd already owns IRQ6 (which is fine, there's no floppy controller
> anyway). The mismatch is occurring because wbsd passes IRQF_SHARED
> whereas floppy doesn't. I assume one of the two is likely wrong. Should
> wbsd really be passing IRQF_SHARED here? This is an LPC device which
> uses ISA-style edge triggered interrupts, is it safe to try and share an
> interrupt with this chip anyway?
>
This is all perfectly valid. The wbsd hw and driver can handle sharing the
interrupt line, while the floppy cannot. If you want to avoid this, then don't
load the floppy driver or assign another irq for wbsd.
Rgds
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