On 14:44 Fri 03 Aug 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:33:04 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> Devres makes low level drivers simpler, easier to get right and
> > >> maintain. Writing new drivers becomes easier too. So, why not?
> > >>
> > >>> Network devices
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:33:04 +0900
Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >> Skimming through drivers... via-rhine doesn't disable PCI device on
> >> init failure path but does so on removal. sky2 doesn't free
> >> consistent memory if sky2_init() fails. ac
Hello,
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Skimming through drivers... via-rhine doesn't disable PCI device on
>> init failure path but does so on removal. sky2 doesn't free
>> consistent memory if sky2_init() fails. acenic calls iounmap() with
>> NULL parameter which I'm not sure whether it's safe or n
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 19:26:45 +0900
Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:58:57AM +0100, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:42:06 -0700
> > Brandon Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > This patch set adds support for devres in the net core and con
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:58:57AM +0100, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:42:06 -0700
> Brandon Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > This patch set adds support for devres in the net core and converts the
> > e100 and e1000 drivers to devres. Devres is a simple resource manag
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:42:06 -0700
Brandon Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch set adds support for devres in the net core and converts the
> e100 and e1000 drivers to devres. Devres is a simple resource manager
> for device drivers, see Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt for more
>
This patch set adds support for devres in the net core and converts the
e100 and e1000 drivers to devres. Devres is a simple resource manager
for device drivers, see Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt for more
information.
The use of devres will remain optional for drivers with this patch set.
