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

[Andrew Morton]

Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:03:29AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > - Lots of merges.  I'm holding off on the 80-odd pcmcia patches until we get
>  >   the recent PCI breakage sorted out.
> 
>  pci-yenta-cardbus-fix.patch and the following patch should solve the
>  initialization time trouble. However, the ACPI-based PCI resource handling
>  is badly broken, IMHO:
> 
>  - many resources of devices don't show up in the resource trees (
>    /proc/iomem and /proc/ioports) any longer. This means that PCMCIA, but
>    also possibly other subsystems (ISA, PnP, ...) do not know which resources
>    it cannot use.

Is this a recent regression?  Is it only in -mm?

IOW: can you identify the bad patch?  Or the bad patcher ;)

>  - verify_root_windows() should fail if there are no iomem _or_ ioport
>    resources, not only if there are no iomem _and_ ioport resources.

This too.
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