netdev - Re: [PATCH RFT] 3c59x: fix freeing nonexistent resource on driver unload

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Date:	Tue, 07 May 2013 00:45:30 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, klassert@...hematik.tu-chemnitz.de,
	tedheadster@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT] 3c59x: fix freeing nonexistent resource on driver
 unload

On 05/06/2013 08:22 PM, David Miller wrote:

>
>> When unloading the driver that drives an EISA board, a message similar to the
>> following one is displayed:
>>
>> Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000013000-000000000001301f>
>>
>> Then an user is unable to reload the driver because the resource it requested in
>> the previous load hasn't been freed. This happens most probably due to a typo in
>> vortex_eisa_remove() which calls release_region() with 'dev->base_addr'  instead
>> of 'edev->base_addr'...
>>
>> Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@...il.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
> Applied, thanks.

    Will you queue this patch for stable?

WBR, Sergei

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