From: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
To: CarlosRomero <caberome@bellsouth.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>
Subject: Re: simple pnp bios io resources bug makes system unusable
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:37:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030701223739.GB19402@neo.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F012202.4010303@bellsouth.net>
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:54:10AM -0400, CarlosRomero wrote:
> my one line patch just skips an io registration with a simple sanity check.
> never once have i heard a device with an ioport of 0x0.
AT DMA controller as stated in my other message, is one example.
> question is why it happens and only once.
It only happens once because in 99% of cases the entire device is disabled,
not just an individual range.
> (also noticing cutoff in /sys/devices/pci0/*/name)
There is a hard limit for device name length, see include/linux/device.h.
That is probably the cause.
Thanks,
Adam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-02 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-01 5:54 CarlosRomero
2003-07-01 22:37 ` Adam Belay [this message]
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2003-07-01 21:33 Shawn Starr
2003-07-01 7:30 Shawn Starr
2003-07-01 3:38 CarlosRomero
2003-07-01 22:30 ` Adam Belay
2003-07-02 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
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