Re: [PATCH] ISDN: make ICN not auto-grab port 0x320

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:39:53 +0200
Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Grabbing ISA bus resources without anything or anyone telling us we
> should can break boot on randconfig/allyesconfig builds by keeping
> resources that are in fact owned by different hardware busy and does
> as reported by Ingo Molnar.

Not an interesting case, and also wrong in the modular case where loading
the module is a direct user action indicating clear intent to use the
functionality *as is*.

NAK this one too.

At the very least make the requirement to say "like please run for real"
dependant on it not being built modular - which is what was done for the
last ones that were twiddled to keep Ingo amused.

Alan
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