Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:15:11 -0500 | From | christophe barbé <> | Subject | Re: 3c59x and cardbus |
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Ok I have found why. When I resinsert the card, the driver give it a new id (this driver supports multiple cards) and the option as I set it is only defined for the card #0. I would expect that the driver give the same id back.
Christophe
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:58:19PM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:40:39AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > christophe barbé wrote: > > > > > > When you remove a 3c59x-based cardbus, the fonction vortex_remove_one > > > is called and this function end with kfree(dev). > > > > > > I was looking why enable_wol loose its value after a remove/insert cycle > > > but this value is store in the private part of dev so it's free with > > > dev. > > > > > > The driver is not unloaded during the remove/insert cycle so it's a > > > kernel space problem. > > > > Yes, all driver state is destroyed when the hardware is removed. > > Look at it the other way: if this was not done, the driver would > > have a memory leak. > > Yes but as I said the driver is not unloaded. > So when I reinsert the card the kernel himself take care of it (no way > to give an option) but the result is that the enable_wol is lost. > > > > > I guess it would be possible to retain some state across insertion > > cycles, keyed off the MAC address or something. What's it needed > > for? > > > > > > - > > -- > Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E > > Cats seem go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for > what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch
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