Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 21:50:20 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Fritz Elfert <fritz@isdn4linux.de>,
       Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>, isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ISDN: make ICN not auto-grab port 0x320
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On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:39:53 +0200
Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:

> Grabbing ISA bus resources without anything or anyone telling us we
> should can break boot on randconfig/allyesconfig builds by keeping
> resources that are in fact owned by different hardware busy and does
> as reported by Ingo Molnar.

Not an interesting case, and also wrong in the modular case where loading
the module is a direct user action indicating clear intent to use the
functionality *as is*.

NAK this one too.

At the very least make the requirement to say "like please run for real"
dependant on it not being built modular - which is what was done for the
last ones that were twiddled to keep Ingo amused.

Alan
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