From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Michal Rokos <michal@rokos.info>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:08:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050214110854.GA2367@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502141143.02205.michal@rokos.info>
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:43:02AM +0100, Michal Rokos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Currently, in almost every PCI driver, if pci_request_regions() fails --
> > indicating another driver is using the hardware -- then
> > pci_disable_device() is called on the error path, disabling a device
> > that another driver is using
> >
> > To call this "rather rude" is an understatement :)
>
> I believe this is needed for natsemi to be inline with $SUBJ.
Why? I don't think there's any old-style driver for natsemi. And if
there was please switch it to use modern pci probing or kill it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-14 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-14 10:43 avoiding pci_disable_device() Michal Rokos
2005-02-14 11:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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2005-02-14 1:42 Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:06 ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 18:08 ` Alan Cox
2005-02-14 19:24 ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-14 19:34 ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 19:50 ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-14 19:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 19:58 ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-14 20:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 21:42 ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-14 22:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 22:46 ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-17 23:07 ` Greg KH
2005-02-14 20:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-15 2:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-16 11:27 ` Takashi Iwai
2005-02-16 13:44 ` Alan Cox
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