Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 05:44:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 05:44:50 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:17102 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 05:44:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3AB9D628.5B01E8B@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 05:38:32 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-pre6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomasz Sterna Cc: James Simmons , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: standard_io_resources[] In-Reply-To: <20010322094159.A7407@plwawtl0.pl.ccbeverages.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tomasz Sterna wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:13:05AM -0800, James Simmons wrote: > > >Isn't that a job of the device drivers? > > Well most of those resources are present on every PC motherboard. > > I still can't see a reason for allocating it before the device drivers > could do that. > > Any suggestions? Anyone? If you write into those resources and they are absent, bad things sometimes happen. So, they are always added to the reserved-resource list. I already had this argument with Linus :) Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | May you have warm words on a cold evening, Building 1024 | a full mooon on a dark night, MandrakeSoft | and a smooth road all the way to your door. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/