Re: [PATCH] minor ne2k-pci irq fix

[Jeff Garzik]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Martin Diehl wrote:
> Sorry, wasn't clear enough. I've meant, the kernel (PCI stuff) changing
> the BAR bus address in the config space when enabling the device (i.e.
> the bus address value which is used for later mapping). Doing so would
> make the pci_resource_start() value bogus (when obtained before enabling
> the device) - even without accessing/ioremap() it.

The pci_resource_start() value is only bogus if the driver is changing
the BAR value -- which it should never do.  Enabling the device could
indeed change the BAR address... that's why pci_enable_device must
ALWAYS be called before reading pci_dev->irq and pci_resource_start()
values.

	Jeff