Re: driver handling of pci_request_regions failure

2005-08-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
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 alm

Re: driver handling of pci_request_regions failure

2005-08-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:10:34AM -0700, 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 b

driver handling of pci_request_regions failure

2005-08-17 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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