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Re: PI card probe clobbers SMC/WD detection...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Sullivan)
Sat Jun 17 19:40:20 1995
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 23:32:54 +0100 (BST)
From: John Sullivan <js10039@cam.ac.uk>
To: John Paul Morrison <jmorriso@bogomips.ee.ubc.ca>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sN2kT-000TvqC@bogomips.ee.ubc.ca>
On Sat, 17 Jun 1995, John Paul Morrison wrote:
> Anyone have some suggestions to make the PI2 driver probe more
> friendly to other ethernet cards, or make the WD driver better at
> detecting cards that got probed by someone else?
Do the WD probe first?
Card probes are notorious for killing things if you do them (in the wrong
order/at all), and this strikes me as being the easiest answer (if it
works and the WD probe doesn't clobber the PI2 probe) if not the most
elegant (which would be for the PI2 to leave the card in a (believed)
reliable state, and the WD driver to first reset the (suspeceted) card to
a reliable state before probing).
John
--
'Who says that? When has that ever been true? It's never been true! It's
the kind of thing people without power say to make it all seem less
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