Re: ACPI-based PCI resources: PCMCIA bugfix, but resources missing in trees

From: Dominik Brodowski
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 15:34:14 EST


On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:18:11PM -0700, Rajesh Shah wrote:
> > > > - verify_root_windows() should fail if there are no iomem _or_ ioport
> > > > resources, not only if there are no iomem _and_ ioport resources.
> > >
>
> No, I actually saw production (or close to production) machines
> where BIOS was deliberately only programming memory resources, no
> IO. In fact, I had to change the check to the current form for such
> machines.

Well, what should be done in this case? IMO we should fall back to the
"previous" behaviour -- is a
kfree(bus->resource[i]);
bus->resource[i] = bres[i];
needed for this to happen?

Thanks,
Dominik
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