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From: christophe =?iso-8859-15?Q?barb=E9?= 
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Subject: Re: 3c59x and cardbus
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Ok I have found why.
When I resinsert the card, the driver give it a new id (this driver
supports multiple cards) and the option as I set it is only defined for
the card #0. I would expect that the driver give the same id back.

Christophe

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:58:19PM -0500, christophe barb=E9 wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:40:39AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > christophe barb=E9 wrote:
> > >=20
> > > When you remove a 3c59x-based cardbus, the fonction vortex_remove_one
> > > is called and this function end with kfree(dev).
> > >=20
> > > I was looking why enable_wol loose its value after a remove/insert cy=
cle
> > > but this value is store in the private part of dev so it's free with
> > > dev.
> > >=20
> > > The driver is not unloaded during the remove/insert cycle so it's a
> > > kernel space problem.
> >=20
> > Yes, all driver state is destroyed when the hardware is removed.
> > Look at it the other way: if this was not done, the driver would
> > have a memory leak.
>=20
> Yes but as I said the driver is not unloaded.
> So when I reinsert the card the kernel himself take care of it (no way
> to give an option) but the result is that the enable_wol is lost.
>=20
> >=20
> > I guess it would be possible to retain some state across insertion
> > cycles, keyed off the MAC address or something.  What's it needed
> > for?
> >=20
> >=20
> > -
>=20
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> Christophe Barb=E9 <christophe.barbe@ufies.org>
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>=20
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