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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2/3] Use insert_resource in pci_claim_resource
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:36:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040319153639.E14431@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040319145212.GN25059@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from willy@debian.org on Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:52:12PM +0000

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:52:12PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> But I do think insert_resource is the right call to make.  If the device has
> the wrong resources, that means something's gone awfully wrong earlier in
> the pci code.

Sure, but due to the request_resource semantics, it provides a good way
to catch this should it occur.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-19 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-18 23:50 [0/3] Make pci resources show up in iomem/ioport on ia64 Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-18 23:51 ` [1/3] insert_resource can succeed and return an error Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-18 23:52 ` [2/3] Use insert_resource in pci_claim_resource Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-19  9:56   ` Russell King
2004-03-19 14:52     ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-19 15:36       ` Russell King [this message]
2004-03-19 17:09         ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-18 23:52 ` [3/3] claim PCI resources on ia64 Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-19  1:48   ` David Mosberger
2004-03-19 22:13 ` [0/3] Make pci resources show up in iomem/ioport " Greg KH

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