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From: James Simmons <jsimmons@linux-fbdev.org>
To: Tomasz Sterna <smoku@jaszczur.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re:standard_io_resources[]
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:13:05 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0103210908560.2648-100000@linux.local> (raw)


>Isn't that a job of the device drivers?

Well most of those resources are present on every PC motherboard.

>In KGI we have our own keyboard driver which tries to allocate the
>kayboard I/O range for itself, and when it does io_check_region() it
>fails. What should I do?

This will also be the case for 2.5.X. We already have the PS/2 keyboard
ported over to the input api. Since we can in theory have a USB system and
then later attach a PS/2 keyboard we have it so the resources are
allocated for PS/2 keyboards.

MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that
renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.

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             reply	other threads:[~2001-03-21 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-21 17:13 James Simmons [this message]
2001-03-22  8:41 ` standard_io_resources[] Tomasz Sterna
2001-03-22 10:38   ` standard_io_resources[] Jeff Garzik

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