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Subject: Re: Latest paulus.git PCI broken on mpc8540?
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> 
> I don't know much of the code, so, propably a stupid question:
> Can we avoid to do the initial resource allocation, when it's known to fail?
> 
> It seems to me like things are done twice here:
> 1. try
> 2. reallocate
> 3. retry

Well, we don't know it's going to fail until we try :-)

Ben.