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Re: rtnetlink bug in 2.3

To: hadi@xxxxxxxxxx (jamal)
Subject: Re: rtnetlink bug in 2.3
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 21:29:52 +0400 (MSK DST)
Cc: zajbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0004011220330.19473-100000@shell.cyberus.ca> from "jamal" at Apr 1, 0 12:22:26 pm
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Hello!

> This is going to be a big problem BTW. These type of cards i
> believe generate interupts when inserted to allow dynamic allocation
> of PCI type resources. Same applies to compact PCI.

I see no problems, processes exist exactly to do this.
BTW fiddling with PCI resources is impossible from interrupts exactly
as registering any devices, so that mentioned cardbus driver
is broken fundamentally.

Alexey

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