Re: Please revert: PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources

Ralf Baechle
2007-12-10T13:41:23Z

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:20:50AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > To be totally correct, we still need to also revert
> > commit fd6e732186ab522c812ab19c2c5e5befb8ec8115 which
> > is bogus.
>
> Agreed but that would cause an revert on an obscure MIPS platform which
> is apparently now a thoughtcrime ;)
>
> > Linus, can you still apply this to 2.6.24 ? I would also like the
> > above (fd6e...) reverted as so far, nobody have come up with a demonstration
> > that it's not bogus.
>
> Ack the revert too.
>
> The MIPS needs sorting out differently.

Yep.

It seems the whole MIPS resource managment is complicated enough (out of
necessity) that only a few people actually grok it. Ioports being
actually memory mapped on MIPS only makes the confusion worse, sigh.

Ralf