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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <gl@dsa-ac.de>
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Subject: Re: [2.4.23: pc_keyb.c] request_irq() without free_irq().
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:32:22 +0100 (CET) Guennadi Liakhovetski <gl@dsa-ac.de> wrote:

| Hello
| 
| Looks like the the counterpart for kbd_request_irq() is missing. Am I
| right?

Did you find the counterpart for kbd_request_region()?

In 2.4.x, the pc keyboard driver option is Y/N.  It can't be a module.
If it's built into the kernel, it just hangs around until reboot.
It doesn't need to release resources when the kernel is shutting down.

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