Re: kernel/resource.c breakage

David Hinds (dhinds@zen.stanford.edu)
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:03:00 -0700


On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 10:20:31AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
>
> If we requested 8 bytes the first time, the check_region (base, 3) will
> fail.
>
> This hack requests the region in two chunks. Yuck. Is there a better
> way?

I think the right thing would be to check both (base,3) and (base,8).
The reason is that the double request will work for the moment, but
when we get a PnP device manager, it will create a resource entry for
the full size of the region before the parport driver ever gets a
chance to look at it. So the double request would then start to fail.

-- Dave

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