Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760222AbYBNTnZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:43:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755614AbYBNTnR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:43:17 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:38001 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753708AbYBNTnQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:43:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:42:52 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Bjorn Helgaas cc: Robert Hancock , Andrew Morton , avuton@gmail.com, yakui.zhao@intel.com, shaohua.li@intel.com, trenn@suse.de, Linux Kernel Mailing List , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card In-Reply-To: <200802141151.40396.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Message-ID: References: <200802051312.47074.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <200802141151.40396.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 690 Lines: 21 On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > Sorry for the delay. I did work on this, but I don't see how this > can work. pcibios_init() marks its reservations as not busy, so the > subsequent PNP request doesn't fail, even if it clashes. It *shouldn't* fail. Things should fail only when two different drivers have requested the same region. NOT when something tells the system that a region _exists_. Two different things. Linus -- 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/