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Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000 close
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sul, 2003-04-06 at 00:12, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Supposed to cure a dev_close called without dev_open.
> Is this still needed ?

If ->close is called on a device that is not open then 
the fix is not the driver, the fix is the core code
fix.