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From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
	"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: promise controller resource alloc problems with ~2.6.8
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:30:32 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041001103032.GA1049@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409301646040.2403@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:56:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Now, the reason for using "insert_resource()" in arch/i386/pci/i386.c 
> should go away with Shaohua Li's patch, so I'd love to hear if applying 
> Li's patch _and_ making the "insert_resource()" be a "request_resource()" 
> fixes the problem for you.

You meant this, right?

if (!pr || insert_resource(pr, r) < 0)
	printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Cannot allocate resource region %d of bridge %s\n", idx, pci_name(dev));

If so then the patch + the above did not work. :/

> Greg, we kind of left the ACPI resource management breakage pending, and 
> clearly we need some resolution. Comments?

BTW. I just realised (and I apologise for not doing so earlier) that I'm
not using ACPI on this box.

-- 
    Red herrings strewn hither and yon.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-27  8:45 promise controller resource alloc problems with ~2.6.8 CaT
2004-09-30 23:03 ` CaT
2004-09-30 23:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-30 23:30   ` CaT
2004-09-30 23:56     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-01  0:14       ` Greg KH
2004-10-01  1:23       ` CaT
2004-10-01 10:30       ` CaT [this message]
2004-10-01 14:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-02  4:57           ` CaT
2004-10-02 19:17             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-10  2:19               ` CaT
2004-10-10  3:15                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-10  3:30                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-10  4:51                   ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-10  5:28 Li, Shaohua
2004-10-10 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-12 12:52   ` CaT
2004-10-12 16:03     ` Greg KH

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