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SubjectRe: [KJ] [PATCH] drivers/char/watchdog/* : pci_request_regions
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:01:11PM +0100, Christophe Lucas wrote:
> If PCI request regions fails, then someone else is using the
> hardware we wish to use. For that one case, calling
> pci_disable_device() is rather rude.
> See : http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0502.1/1061.html

Actually, that isn't necessarily true. If the request_regions call fails,
that can mean there's a resource conflict. If so, leaving the device
enabled is the worst possible thing to do as we'll now have two devices
trying to respond to the same io accesses.

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