Re: 2.6.15-rc6: known regressions in the kernel Bugzilla

["Gottfried Haider" <gohai@gmx.net>]

>> From: "Gottfried Haider" <gohai@gmx.net>
>> Subject: [2.6.15-rc2] 8139too probe fails (pci related?)
> According to the report perhaps not a post-2.6.14 regression.
> But anyways, this should be better debugged.
>
> @Gottfried:
> Does it work with kernel 2.6.14.4?
> Does it work with kernel 2.6.15-rc6?
> If it stil fails, can you send a complete dmesg for 2.6.15-rc6?
I recently played around with this particular system, and it turned out that 
moving the 8139b-card to another PCI slot fixed it. (works now in both 
2.6.15-rc2 and rc6-git2)
So I guess it's just a particular oddity of this system, as noone else seems 
to hit this?


the original lines in kern.log were
-- snip --
PCI quirk: region e400-e47f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region ec00-ec3f claimed by ICH4 GPIO
PCI: Unable to handle 64-bit address for device 0000:01:0c.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
(..)
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:01:0c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:01:0c.0
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xe400-0xe47f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xec00-0xec3f has been reserved
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Error while updating region 0000:01:0c.0/3 (fa800800 != 00000810)
PCI: Error while updating region 0000:01:0c.0/0 (0000d001 != 813910fc)
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
(..)
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
PCI: Device 0000:01:0c.0 not available because of resource collisions
Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000d000-0000d003>
Trying to free nonexistent resource <fa800800-fa80080f>
8139too: probe of 0000:01:0c.0 failed with error -22
-- snip --
.. on a ASUS CUSL2 (i815E) motherboard that was, no change when using 
pci=routeirq or pci=noacpi.


Gottfried Haider