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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
