From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755557Ab2CDVEv (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2012 16:04:51 -0500 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:32919 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755475Ab2CDVEu (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2012 16:04:50 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:06:49 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: "John G. Heim" Cc: Subject: Re: speakup bug Message-ID: <20120304210649.35b88230@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20120303173916.7eca9391@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 20:03:48 -0600 "John G. Heim" wrote: > From: Alan Cox > Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:39 AM > Subject: Re: speakup bug > > >> returns an error code. But it looks as if the region for a serial port, > >> 0x3f8 - 0x3ff, in ioport_resource cannot be reserved because the entire > >> range from 0x000 through 0xcf7 is already taken by something named "PCI > >> Bus > >> 0000:00". Therefore calling request_resource always fails and the driver > > f>or the speech synth errors out. > > > >It's a heirarchical space, so you can allocate things within it. Look > >at /proc/ioports. > > # file /proc/ioports > /proc/ioports: empty Try cat on it not file