Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging/slicoss: disable pci device at remove

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Mon Jul 09 2012 - 16:09:27 EST


Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:04:19PM +0530, Devendra Naga wrote:
>> at probe we enabled the device, and we should disable it at remove.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
>> index a511a2b..5bd3825 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
>> @@ -3234,6 +3234,7 @@ static void __devexit slic_entry_remove(struct pci_dev *pcidev)
>> }
>> free_netdev(dev);
>> pci_release_regions(pcidev);
>> + pci_disable_device(pcidev);
>
> No, you really shouldn't do this, see the many times this has come up on
> the linux-kernel mailing list for why.

I haven't see this? Why don't you want to disable a device at remove
time? Because we put the disable in the generic pci layer?

Eric
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