Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932089Ab0F3XLF (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:11:05 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41456 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755348Ab0F3XLC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:11:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100630211516.GA25991@us.ibm.com> References: <20100630211516.GA25991@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:10:26 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] PCI: skip release and reallocation of io port resources From: Linus Torvalds To: Ram Pai Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clemens@ladisch.de, Yinghai Lu , Jesse Barnes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 18 On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Ram Pai wrote: > ? ? ? PCI: skip release and reallocation of io port resources Gaah. This still looks like just total ad-hoc hackery. The logic for it all seems very fragile, just a random case made up from the one failing issue. There's no underlying logic or design to it. I still think that we should just make people explicitly ask for a blank slate if the bios allocations don't work out. Rather than trying to fix it up automatically, which has been a total rats nest of random crud. 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/