Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card

Linus Torvalds
2008-02-14T19:43:25Z

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> Sorry for the delay. I did work on this, but I don't see how this
> can work. pcibios_init() marks its reservations as not busy, so the
> subsequent PNP request doesn't fail, even if it clashes.

It *shouldn't* fail.

Things should fail only when two different drivers have requested the same
region. NOT when something tells the system that a region _exists_.

Two different things.

Linus