Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261398AbVBNLI4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:08:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261414AbVBNLI4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:08:56 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:59590 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261398AbVBNLIz (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:08:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:08:54 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Michal Rokos Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()... Message-ID: <20050214110854.GA2367@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Michal Rokos , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200502141143.02205.michal@rokos.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502141143.02205.michal@rokos.info> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 20 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/