From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758849AbYAGVcx (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:32:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758336AbYAGVco (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:32:44 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:34151 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754132AbYAGVcn (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:32:43 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Zhao Yakui Cc: Frans Pop , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:07:28 +0800." <1199682448.2379.12.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200712240612.46786.elendil@planet.nl> <1198803416.21142.7.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> <200801070048.19468.elendil@planet.nl> <1199682448.2379.12.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1199741560_2703P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:32:40 -0500 Message-ID: <21603.1199741560@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1199741560_2703P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:07:28 +0800, Zhao Yakui said: > The resources of PNP device are obtained by calling the _CRS method. > Maybe some resources has been reserved. For example: Some system will > reserve the following resources. > BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fed40000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fed45000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > So the system will report that some resources can't be reserved. ... > The error message is harmless. It only tells us that the resource > definition of PNP device exceeds the predefined PNP constant and maybe > there will be potential problem if some important resources can't be > reserved. For example about 90 IOPORT resources are defined in some PNP > device. So it will print the message. Of course it is more appropriate > to change the message level from ERR to DEBUG. Is it possible to add some cookie crumbs to the currently non-informative message - things like "what address range", "what PNP devices' _CRS was asking for it", and so on? --==_Exmh_1199741560_2703P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHgpp4cC3lWbTT17ARAlaVAKCIG+iyWB0Oibca8zc6TcuvaW/RywCgnFG7 d4m/t/CHsF554T1Kr/nfNHI= =gzmH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1199741560_2703P--