Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] wifi: ath11k: make external IRQ control idempotent

Karthikeyan Periyasamy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless,org.infradead.lists.ath11k
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On 7/20/2026 3:28 AM, Mark Ruvald Pedersen wrote:
> ath11k tracks each external IRQ group's NAPI lifecycle with napi_enabled,
> but calls the physical IRQ enable and disable helpers outside the state
> guards. Repeating a lifecycle disable therefore increments Linux's IRQ
> disable depth on AHB and multi-MSI PCI even when NAPI is already
> disabled. One later enable leaves the IRQ masked.


can you elaborate the scenario where the repeated lifecycle disable 
happen for better understand ?


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