From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
avuton@gmail.com, yakui.zhao@intel.com, shaohua.li@intel.com,
trenn@suse.de,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:26:59 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802141226010.6110@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802141307.59120.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2008 12:42:52 pm Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > It *shouldn't* fail.
> >
> > Things should fail only when two different drivers have requested the same
> > region. NOT when something tells the system that a region _exists_.
>
> The sound driver doesn't fail because two different drivers have
> requested the same region; it fails because PNP told us a region
> exists, and the sound region crosses the edge of the PNP region.
Right, and that was a bug.
It *shouldn't* fail. The PnP resource should be inserted _after_ the
PCI region has been inserted, and _that_ should fail, since the PnP region
is crap and cannot be inserted "half-way".
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-14 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.Kmpf0B4W44W1VefIME7+BnfUouY@ifi.uio.no>
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
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 [this message]
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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