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From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
To: Gunther Mayer <Gunther.Mayer@t-online.de>
Cc: "Steven A. DuChene" <sduchene@mindspring.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PnP BIOS -- bugfix; update devlist on setpnp
Date: 17 Oct 2001 16:58:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1003352314.1188.30.camel@thanatos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BCDAC10.A7F40982@t-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <1003288485.14282.100.camel@thanatos> <20011017041014.B2015@lapsony.mydomain.here>  <3BCDAC10.A7F40982@t-online.de>

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 12:04, Gunther Mayer wrote:
> i2c-piix4 has to be taught to ignore PNP0c0x reservations.
> 
> PNP0C02 means "mainboard resource" and obviously i2c-piix4
> would like to use it, so it should make use of it's knowledge.
> 
> As "mainboard resouce" is very generic we must reserve it
> to protect against mapping other addresses over it.

Your approach would work.  But ...

Alan has said that the thing to do is mark these resources
as extant but unused.  I presume one does this by calling
request_resource with appropriate flags [un]set.

Thomas


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-17 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-17  3:14 [PATCH] PnP BIOS -- bugfix; update devlist on setpnp Thomas Hood
2001-10-17  8:10 ` Steven A. DuChene
2001-10-17 13:35   ` Thomas Hood
2001-10-17 16:08     ` Steven A. DuChene
2001-10-17 16:04   ` Gunther Mayer
2001-10-17 20:58     ` Thomas Hood [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-13 15:40 Thomas Hood
2001-10-15  6:37 ` Jurgen Botz
2001-10-15  9:45   ` Stelian Pop
2001-10-15 12:01     ` Andrey Panin
2001-10-15 12:25       ` Alan Cox
2001-10-15 21:49         ` Thomas Hood
2001-10-15 14:15 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-10-17  2:48 ` Steven A. DuChene

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