if (interrupt == 0)
                return IRQ_NONE;
 
-       chip->vendor.irq = irq;
+       chip->vendor.probed_irq = irq;
 
        /* Clear interrupts handled with TPM_EOI */
        iowrite32(interrupt,
                        resource_size_t len, unsigned int irq)
 {
        u32 vendor, intfcaps, intmask;
-       int rc, i;
+       int rc, i, irq_s, irq_e;
        struct tpm_chip *chip;
 
        if (!(chip = tpm_register_hardware(dev, &tpm_tis)))
        if (intfcaps & TPM_INTF_DATA_AVAIL_INT)
                dev_dbg(dev, "\tData Avail Int Support\n");
 
+       /* get the timeouts before testing for irqs */
+       tpm_get_timeouts(chip);
+
        /* INTERRUPT Setup */
        init_waitqueue_head(&chip->vendor.read_queue);
        init_waitqueue_head(&chip->vendor.int_queue);
        if (interrupts)
                chip->vendor.irq = irq;
        if (interrupts && !chip->vendor.irq) {
-               chip->vendor.irq =
+               irq_s =
                    ioread8(chip->vendor.iobase +
                            TPM_INT_VECTOR(chip->vendor.locality));
+               if (irq_s) {
+                       irq_e = irq_s;
+               } else {
+                       irq_s = 3;
+                       irq_e = 15;
+               }
 
-               for (i = 3; i < 16 && chip->vendor.irq == 0; i++) {
+               for (i = irq_s; i <= irq_e && chip->vendor.irq == 0; i++) {
                        iowrite8(i, chip->vendor.iobase +
-                                   TPM_INT_VECTOR(chip->vendor.locality));
+                                TPM_INT_VECTOR(chip->vendor.locality));
                        if (request_irq
                            (i, tis_int_probe, IRQF_SHARED,
                             chip->vendor.miscdev.name, chip) != 0) {
                                  chip->vendor.iobase +
                                  TPM_INT_ENABLE(chip->vendor.locality));
 
+                       chip->vendor.probed_irq = 0;
+
                        /* Generate Interrupts */
                        tpm_gen_interrupt(chip);
 
+                       chip->vendor.irq = chip->vendor.probed_irq;
+
+                       /* free_irq will call into tis_int_probe;
+                          clear all irqs we haven't seen while doing
+                          tpm_gen_interrupt */
+                       iowrite32(ioread32
+                                 (chip->vendor.iobase +
+                                  TPM_INT_STATUS(chip->vendor.locality)),
+                                 chip->vendor.iobase +
+                                 TPM_INT_STATUS(chip->vendor.locality));
+
                        /* Turn off */
                        iowrite32(intmask,
                                  chip->vendor.iobase +
        list_add(&chip->vendor.list, &tis_chips);
        spin_unlock(&tis_lock);
 
-       tpm_get_timeouts(chip);
        tpm_continue_selftest(chip);
 
        return 0;