Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:08:45 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] media/radio [check_region() removal... ] |
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Andrey Panin wrote: > 1) how about drivers requesting 2 (or more) irq for one device ? > AFAIK some PowerMac net drivers do it (bmac.c for example).
Should be fine.. If the driver distinguishes between the irqs, maybe you should do "eth0-rx dma", "eth0-tx dma", etc.
> 2) i found that some net drivers (3c527.c, sk_mca.c) use io region and > don't call request_region() at all. Should they be fixed ?
Probably... but there may be a reason for that, too. drivers/net/atp.c, for example, does not use request_region because it uses the standard parallel ports. (ideally, of course, it should use the parport API...)
Jeff
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