Re: [patch 4/4] PNP: dont sort by type in /sys/.../resources

Rene Herman
2008-05-19T23:21:10Z

On 16-05-08 00:07, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> Rather than stepping through all IO resources, then stepping through
> all MMIO resources, etc., we can just iterate over the resource list
> once directly.
>
> This can change the order in /sys, e.g.,
>
> # cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00:07/resources # OLD
> state = active
> io 0x3f8-0x3ff
> irq 4
>
> # cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00:07/resources # NEW
> state = active
> irq 4
> io 0x3f8-0x3ff
>
> The old code artificially sorted resources by type; the new code
> just lists them in the order we read them from the ISAPNP hardware
> or the BIOS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

Acked-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>

Rene.