Re: 1.99.14 & duplicate NE2000 (fwd)

Nick Andrew (nick@zeta.org.au)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:14:08 +1000 (EST)

Forwarding a message from David Hinds:
> Ummm, I don't think this is how request_region() works. A second call
> to request_region() for an already-allocated region will silently
> fail: it will not replace the old entry with the new one.
>
> I think it would probably be a good idea for request_region() to
> return a success/failure indication. I wonder why it doesn't, but I
> wrote it a long time ago and don't remember what I was thinking at the
> time. Maybe I did it that way to be compatible with its predecessor,
> snarf_region().

I fixed request_region() and friends months ago, even finding and fixing
a race condition. I mailed the patch to Linus, but I guess it got lost
in his mailbox.

Anyway soon after Andrew E Mileski started to get into PnP support so
I passed my changes on to him and he's generalised the whole area and
worked them into a fix. I'm surprised to find his changes didn't get
into the 1.3.x tree. PLEASE put them in, and preferably into 2.0.x !

Nick.

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