Re: two hotplug issues

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> In earlier kernels, the ioctl(DS_GET_DEVICE_INFO) for pcmcia NICs was
> returning "eth0" as the name in bind_info_t.name[].  In current kernels
> it is returning the driver name, as supplied by the driver in its
> pci_driver.name field - "3c575_cb", for example. This breaks David's
> pcmcia tools.
> 
> What's the fix?

request_region and request_mem_region need to be passed the interface
name returned from init_etherdev.

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> When I run 'cardctl suspend', the card is successfully shut down, but I
> simply can't find a way of bringing it back to life.  Also, the driver's
> pci_driver.suspend and pci_driver.resume methods are never called.

Debugging welcome :)

	Jeff

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