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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	ambx1@neo.rr.com, david-b@pacbell.net, mingo@elte.hu,
	tglx@linutronix.de, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net,
	rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch][resend] provide rtc_cmos platform device, take 2
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:52:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805300952.15969.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483F7EBA.1040708@aknet.ru>

On Thursday 29 May 2008 10:12:42 pm Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > As far as I'm concerned, "pnpacpi=off" should only be used to work
> > around defects, so I'd like to fix the defect you're seeing with
> > parport_pc.  Is there a bug report for it?
> Certainly, and you've seen it many
> times. :)
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7491
> Its that the module parameters are overriden
> by PNP and are ignored, so you can't do
> "dma=none" etc.
> Your patch is not for that, AFAICS.
> Or let me know if it is.

Oh, yeah, that one :-)  No, my patch does nothing for that.

I can't remember why it's so hard to fix that bug.  Maybe now that
we fixed the *other* reason for using "pnpacpi=off", I can take
another look at it and make some progress.  It doesn't *sound* like
it should be hard to fix.

Bjorn


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-30 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200805212334.m4LNY42M006425@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-23  5:02 ` [patch] " Stas Sergeev
2008-05-27 11:23 ` [patch][resend] " Stas Sergeev
2008-05-28 23:36   ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-29  4:52     ` Stas Sergeev
2008-05-29 14:54     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-05-30  4:12       ` Stas Sergeev
2008-05-30 15:52         ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2008-06-02  9:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-02  9:53     ` Russell King
2008-05-29  6:27   ` David Brownell

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