From: "Ramkrishna Vepa" <Ramkrishna.Vepa@neterion.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:17:03 -0500

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> Dave,
> 
> This change is not required as the macro, is_s2io_card_up() checks for
> an internal state of the adapter and not netif's state. We want to make
> sure that the adapter registers are not accessed when the adapter is
> being brought down.

If the adapter is being brought down, you would have done
a napi_disable() first and therefore never reach this code
path.

The removal is correct, I read how your driver works.
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