From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
avuton@gmail.com, yakui.zhao@intel.com, shaohua.li@intel.com,
bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, trenn@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:50:13 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802011149160.3198@www.l.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A2644B.4000905@shaw.ca>
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Robert Hancock wrote:
>
> I think so. There was one objection that it introduced a dependency on pnpacpi
> loading after PCI bus enumeration, though.
>
> Linus also suggested that pnpacpi could be marking the resources as "present
> but unused" so that drivers can request those regions but we still prevent
> dynamically assigning resources into them.
I _think_ that's what ACPI used to do before switching over to the PnPACPI
thing, so I do think that "present but not reserved" approach is not just
the right one, but also the (historically) tested one.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-01-27 18:17 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-31 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-01 0:14 ` Robert Hancock
2008-02-01 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-02-04 17:39 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-04 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-04 20:41 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-04 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-05 7:03 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-05 16:46 ` Avuton Olrich
2008-02-05 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-05 20:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-13 22:33 ` Avuton Olrich
2008-02-14 18:51 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-14 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-14 20:07 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-14 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-14 21:01 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-14 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-14 22:28 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-14 22:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-14 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-15 0:13 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-15 0:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-27 17:43 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-01-27 14:40 Avuton Olrich
2008-01-27 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-28 1:15 ` Shaohua Li
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