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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:18:24 -0500
From: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
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To: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
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       Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, jbeulich@novell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: Omit error message for benign allocation failure
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Gary Hade wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:23:32PM -0500, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote:
>> Kernel always tries to. But it's best effort basis, IMO.
>> (Maybe your patch is going to fix that?)
> 
> If you are seeing the allocation failures both with and
> without my original patch I doubt that an improved version
> would work.  In my case, the BIOS had allowed sufficient
> resource for the expansion ROMs but was expecting the kernel
> to get it from the non-prefetch instead of prefetch window.

OK. Then it's different from mine.
Thanks for the info.

Regards,
-- 
Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Corporation of America
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