Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.

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