Re: [PATCH] net/cadence/macb: clear interrupts simply and correctly

On 06/13/2014 12:44 AM, Sören Brinkmann wrote:

Hi Jongsung,

Hi Sören,

Does this interrupt need to be enabled? There is nothing checking
that bit and handling this IRQ in the handler, AFAICT. And you solve
this by simply clearing the bit. So, I wonder whether not enabling this
IRQ in the first place would solve things too.

The driver actually checks the bit, but does not clear it. Disabling the
"Rx used bit read" interrupt you said may be a solution. However, I think
it is the better way to clear the exceptional HW-state rather than just to
mask it.

This is now clearing all IRQ flags which is probably not what we want
here. This is handling RX only. We still want the non-RX interrupts to go to
the actual interrupt service routing.

The ISR(Interrupt Status Register) is read only in the interrupt service
routine, macb_interrupt. But is partially cleared here and there. Further
handler-functions decide jobs to be done by reading/checking other status
registers. (e.g., TSR, RSR) So, clearing the ISR after reading looks not
a bad idea.

Jongsung