From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261575AbVFZTRo (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:17:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261577AbVFZTRo (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:17:44 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:55764 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261575AbVFZTRk (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:17:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:17:10 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Dominik Brodowski Cc: greg@kroah.com, rajesh.shah@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ACPI-based PCI resources: PCMCIA bugfix, but resources missing in trees Message-Id: <20050626121710.44c1df8d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050626140411.GA8597@dominikbrodowski.de> References: <20050626040329.3849cf68.akpm@osdl.org> <20050626140411.GA8597@dominikbrodowski.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:03:29AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > - Lots of merges. I'm holding off on the 80-odd pcmcia patches until we get > > the recent PCI breakage sorted out. > > pci-yenta-cardbus-fix.patch and the following patch should solve the > initialization time trouble. However, the ACPI-based PCI resource handling > is badly broken, IMHO: > > - many resources of devices don't show up in the resource trees ( > /proc/iomem and /proc/ioports) any longer. This means that PCMCIA, but > also possibly other subsystems (ISA, PnP, ...) do not know which resources > it cannot use. Is this a recent regression? Is it only in -mm? IOW: can you identify the bad patch? Or the bad patcher ;) > - verify_root_windows() should fail if there are no iomem _or_ ioport > resources, not only if there are no iomem _and_ ioport resources. This too.