From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Eric Kerin <eric@bootseg.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 aic7xxx and aic79xx stale pci_device list entry
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 10:01:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073120514.4429.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073076654.2048.19.camel@opiate>
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On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 21:50, Eric Kerin wrote:
> Loading the aic7xxx or aic79xx modules, on a machine that did not
> contain the card, left a stale entry in the pci_device list. This
> caused an oops upon loading the next module that registered a
> pci_device.
>
> The patches below will unregister the pci_device if it successfully
> registers the device, but does not find any cards.
>
> Comments are appreciated.
well in 2.6 modules are supposed to remain loaded even though no device
is found (since one can be hotplugged later) so that part of the driver
needs changing; other than that yes the driver needs to deregister
itself....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-03 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-02 20:50 [PATCH] 2.6.0 aic7xxx and aic79xx stale pci_device list entry Eric Kerin
2004-01-03 9:01 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-01-03 11:12 ` Eric Kerin
2004-01-03 13:59 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-01-24 16:09 ` Eric Kerin
2004-01-03 22:24 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-01-04 10:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-30 5:25 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-01-30 14:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-30 15:03 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-01-03 22:24 ` Justin T. Gibbs
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