netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/7] drivers/atm/eni.c: ensure arguments to request_irq and free

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Message-Id: <20120311.154219.270150852508281564.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	julia.lawall@...6.fr
Cc:	chas@....nrl.navy.mil, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] drivers/atm/eni.c: ensure arguments to request_irq
 and free_irq are compatible

From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:16:25 +0100 (CET)

> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> Convert calls to free_irq so that the second argument is the same as
> the
> last argument of the corresponding call to request_irq.  Without this
> property, free_irq does nothing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

Applied, but this driver also has a larger problem, it doesn't
free the IRQ (nor do any other kind of chip shutdown and cleanups)
when the driver is unloaded.  The unload function is just one empty
function with a comment.
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