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

From: Rajesh Shah
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 15:20:57 EST


On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:14:14PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > Is this a recent regression? Is it only in -mm?
>
> Yes. Yes.
>
> > IOW: can you identify the bad patch? Or the bad patcher ;)
>
> gregkh-pci-pci-collect-host-bridge-resources-02.patch
>

Guilty as charged. I will look at providing a fix. In the meantime,
you can drop this patch if you like Andrew.

> > > - 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.

Rajesh
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