Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:16:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
cc: matthew@wil.cx, justin.chen@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI BAR mem resource allocation "regression"
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Alex Chiang wrote:
> 
> I've been chasing a bug for the past week or so that I can't seem
> to figure out, and was hoping to get your eyes on it.
> 
> The basic summary is, we can't allocate a memory resource for our
> BAR after a PCI hotplug operation. We've been able to bisect it
> down to d33b6fba2c4350651f3f61ff2ab858a2f116e9a4 (Resources:
> insert identical resources above existing resources).

I'm missing some pieces I'd like to see: /proc/iomem before and after, and 
lspci output before and after (you do give lspci output, but only one, and 
I can't tell if it's before or after).

Also, is it just the error message, or does it actually affect 
functionality?

			Linus
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