Hi,
The starfire driver in 2.4.0 (and 2.4.0-ac8) forgets to release its MMIO
region when the module is unloaded, which makes it impossible to load it a
second time. The attached patch fixed this problem; I tested it here on a
2-port card.
Please apply.
Thanks,
Ion
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--- linux-2.4.vanilla/drivers/net/starfire.c Fri Aug 11 15:57:58 2000
+++ linux-2.4/drivers/net/starfire.c Fri Jan 12 12:52:48 2001
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
static int card_idx = -1;
static int printed_version = 0;
long ioaddr;
- int drv_flags, io_size = netdrv_tbl[chip_idx].io_size;
+ int drv_flags, io_size;
card_idx++;
option = card_idx < MAX_UNITS ? options[card_idx] : 0;
@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@
version1, version2, version3);
ioaddr = pci_resource_start (pdev, 0);
+ io_size = pci_resource_len (pdev, 0);
if (!ioaddr || ((pci_resource_flags (pdev, 0) & IORESOURCE_MEM) == 0)) {
printk (KERN_ERR "starfire %d: no PCI MEM resources, aborting\n",
card_idx);
return -ENODEV;
@@ -1359,6 +1360,9 @@
unregister_netdev(dev);
iounmap((char *)dev->base_addr);
+
+ release_mem_region(pci_resource_start (pdev, 0),
+ pci_resource_len (pdev, 0));
if (np->tx_done_q)
pci_free_consistent(np->pci_dev, PAGE_SIZE,
-
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