Re: [PATCH 7/15] EDAC: i82875p cleanup

From: Wang Zhenyu
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 00:04:59 EST


On 2006.03.04 02:47:01 +0000, Dave Peterson wrote:
>
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Dave Peterson <dsp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > +#ifdef CORRECT_BIOS
> > > +fail0:
> > > +#endif
> >
> > What is CORRECT_BIOS? Is the fact that it's never defined some sort of
> > commentary? ;)
> I'm not sure about this. I'm cc'ing Thayne Harbaugh and Wang Zhenyu since
> their names are in the credits for the i82875p module. Maybe they can
> provide some info.

You can take CORRECT_BIOS as "strict-pci-resource-reserve" for overflow device
in 82875p, some bad BIOS does make it reserved, which cause pci_request_region()
failed. Actually we never defined it.

zhen
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