Following a mild suggestion, I looked at it with rested eyes and indeed found
the problem elsewhere - it works great now.
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Willem Atsma wrote:
> I am writing a device driver. I moved the interrupt allocation and release
> calls to the open and release functions, but for some reason the free_irq call
> fails.
>
> (I am writing the driver to be compatible with both RTL and plain linux, and
> for now I am trying to get it to work for normal operation, but the kernel is
> the RTL version: 2.2.14-rtl2.2.)
>
> Why is it that the kernel does not free the interrupt in the release method?
> Does this _have_ to be done in the cleanup_module() function? In the current
> implementation no error messages are generated, but the /proc/interrupt shows
> that it is still occupied after closing the device. The free_irq() is called
> correctly.
>
> thanks,
>
> Willem
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