netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.22 2/4]S2IO: Removing MSI support from the driver

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:18:00 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Veena Parat <Veena.Parat@...erion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22 2/4]S2IO: Removing MSI support from the driver

Veena Parat wrote:
> 1.Removed MSI support from driver - unused feature
> 2.Removed pci_request_regions call to allocate bar2 as it is not used in driver
> 3.Removed pci_release_regions since pci_request_regions is not done

This is wrong.  pci_request_regions() grabs all the regions for the 
associated PCI device, which is the desired behavior.

Using request_mem_region() is not what you want to do for PCI devices.


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