Hi, Following patch is to fix acorn request region failure. Pls apply. dhammika ----------------- diff -urN ./linux-2.5.48/drivers/acorn/net/ether1.c ./linux/drivers/acorn/net/ether1.c --- ./linux-2.5.48/drivers/acorn/net/ether1.c Mon Nov 18 10:29:47 2002 +++ ./linux/drivers/acorn/net/ether1.c Mon Nov 25 11:19:52 2002 @@ -1035,13 +1035,20 @@ /* * these will not fail - the nature of the bus ensures this */ - request_region(dev->base_addr, 16, dev->name); - request_region(dev->base_addr + 0x800, 4096, dev->name); + if(!request_region(dev->base_addr, 16, dev->name)){ + ret = -EBUSY; + goto release1; + } + + if(!request_region(dev->base_addr + 0x800, 4096, dev->name)){ + ret = -EBUSY; + goto release2; + } priv = (struct ether1_priv *)dev->priv; if ((priv->bus_type = ether1_reset(dev)) == 0) { ret = -ENODEV; - goto release; + goto release3; } printk(KERN_INFO "%s: ether1 in slot %d, ", @@ -1054,7 +1061,7 @@ if (ether1_init_2(dev)) { ret = -ENODEV; - goto release; + goto release3; } dev->open = ether1_open; @@ -1069,9 +1076,11 @@ ecard_set_drvdata(ec, dev); return 0; -release: +release3: release_region(dev->base_addr, 16); +release2: release_region(dev->base_addr + 0x800, 4096); +release1: unregister_netdev(dev); -----------------