Re: [PATCH] NE PnP Update from Jeff Muizelaar (5/6)

From: Paul Gortmaker (p_gortmaker@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 04:45:27 EST


I've a couple of quick comments after looking over the patch:

> -"Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker\n";
> +"Last modified January 20, 2003 by Jeff Muizelaar\n";

Feel free to delete this "Last modified" stuff altogether.
It is just extra verbage at boot we don't need. (Blame
Jeff Garzik -- he put it there, not me... ;-)

> + free_irq(dev->irq, dev);
> + release_region(dev->base_addr, NE_IO_EXTENT);
> + unregister_netdev(dev);
> + kfree(dev->priv);
> + kfree(dev);

It is usually good practice to unregister a device as the
first thing, and then release its associated resources once
you know the kernel doesn't hold any references to it.

Thanks,
Paul.

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