Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Jeff observed a problem with sky2 driver where if pci_request_regions
failed, the probe code would disable the device. Since if request_regions
fails, this means another device is conflicting, disabling the device
seems to be the wrong.
This problem seems to occur in almost all PCI drivers I look at:
8139cp, amd8111e, b44, bnx2, dl2k, e100, epic100
forcedeth, r8169, rrunner, s2io, saa9730, skge, tg3,
typhoon, via-velocity, sk98lin, olympic, tulip(s)
dscc4, farsync, pci200syn, wanxl, orinoco
Is it worth fixing all those? How about a kernel janitor task?
It's a low priority fix for old drivers (janitor task), but for new
drivers it should be fixed before the driver gets merged upstream.
Jeff
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