Re: kernel/resource.c breakage

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 19:37:01 +0100 (GMT)


On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, David Hinds wrote:

> 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.

Hmm. Can we just check that we agree on what check_region is supposed to
mean? I thought it was 'will request_region work?', although I was never
quite sure why request_region itself returned void rather than
success/fail.

Tim.
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