On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 07:34:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > BTW. I just realised (and I apologise for not doing so earlier) that I'm
> > not using ACPI on this box.
> 
> For you, the bigger patch shouldn't have made any difference. But it's 
> needed for some other people who have BIOS'es that mark PCI regions as 
> being reserved for the motherboard, and they get resource conflicts 
> otherwise (resource conflicts that largely go away with 
> "insert_resource()", but if we want to change that to "request_resource()" 
> then that other patch is needed).

Aha.

> Can you send me your ioports from 2.6.9-rc3 _with_ the 
> "request_resource()" change..

Diff says that the file is thesame as the one without patch+change
that doesn't work.

Attached none-the-less.

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