Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jul 1999 19:37:01 +0100 (GMT) | From | Tim Waugh <> | Subject | Re: kernel/resource.c breakage |
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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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