netdev - Re: [PATCH] sky2: irqname based on pci address

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Message-Id: <20091001.151732.61755550.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:17:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mschmidt@...hat.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: irqname based on pci address

From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 20:03:55 +0200

> Dne Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:11:46 -0700 Stephen Hemminger napsal(a):
>> This is based on Michal Schmidt fix for skge.
>> 
>> Most network drivers request their IRQ when the interface is
>> activated. sky2 does it in ->probe() instead, because it can work
>> with two-port cards where the two net_devices use the same IRQ. This
>> works fine most of the time, except in some situations when the
>> interface gets renamed. Consider this example:
 ...
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>

Applied.
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