Help: eth1: IRQ handler is looping too much! Shutting down

[Joseph R. Skoler]

David Gison writes:

> > When I issue "iwpriv eth1 monitor 1 1" dmesg appends:
> > 
> > eth1: IRQ handler is looping too much! Shutting down.
> 
> This means the driver is receiving way more interrupts than it could
> reasonably expect.  It's basically a sanity test so that if something
> goes wrong and the interrupt line is never deasserted, the whole
> machine doesn't lock up inside the interrupt routine.
> 

Makes sense.

> > Does the group think this looks like an IRQ conflict?  If 
> not, what then?
> 
> It's possible - but the driver can share interrupts so to cause this
> problem it would mean the other device is generating heaps of
> interrupts.  Probably more likely is some misconfiguration of the
> PCI<->PCMCIA bridge so that it always asserting the interrupt line.
> 

Physical misconfiguration -- i.e., dip switch/jumper setting?

If not, where is the config stuff for the TI1410?

Thanks,

Joseph R. Skoler
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