From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756864AbZHNRfw (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:35:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756328AbZHNRfv (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:35:51 -0400 Received: from cpsmtpm-eml102.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.6]:60460 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML102.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756078AbZHNRfv (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:35:51 -0400 From: Frans Pop To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: PCI resources allocation problem on Toshiba Satellite A40 Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:35:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net, rjw@sisk.pl, willy@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, andrew.patterson@hp.com References: <200908021619.48285.rjw@sisk.pl> <200908141850.44736.elendil@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908141935.41529.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Aug 2009 17:35:52.0056 (UTC) FILETIME=[AB5D9780:01CA1D05] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 14 August 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So the fact that it "worked" for a few kernels was simply due to a > kernel bug, where "pci_claim_resource()" incorrectly allowed the > resource to be inserted into a resource window that wasn't actually its > parent, and a crazy BIOS that did crazy things, together with a chipset > where those crazy things just _happened_ to work because of how > decoding was done. OK. Thanks for taking a look. I'll happily ignore the error messages from now on. Luckily confirmation that things work correctly when faced with broken BIOSes can be useful too :-) Cheers, FJP