From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: fix warn_on reload after phy_id error
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:31:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <491942CE.4010604@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081108002739.17508.60954.stgit@gitlost.lost>
Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> If the driver fails to initialize the first time due to the failure in the
> phy_id check the kernel triggers a warn_on on the second try to load the
> driver because the driver did not free the msi/x resources in the first
> load because of the previous failure in phy_id check.
Is that all one sentence? Can I buy a comma or semi-colon, Pat? :)
More seriously, this description is not very helpful. A good
description precisely outlines the _solution_ ("fix msi/x resource
leak"), perhaps with a bit of concise problem description ("failure to
free msi/x resources").
Your description focuses mostly on what the user/tester experiences and
observes, whereas in a changeset description the most important thing to
communicate is to describe the engineering change to the driver (proper
release of resources).
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-11 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-08 0:27 [PATCH] e1000e: fix warn_on reload after phy_id error Jeff Kirsher
2008-11-11 8:31 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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