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SubjectRe: [PATCH] smsc-ircc2: Add PnP support.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:49:50PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:42:07PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote:
> >>>>On3) If the ressources are markes as disabled, you just quit
> >>>>with an error. Compouded with (2), this makes me doubly
> >>>>nervous. Wouldn't it be possible to forcefully enable those
> >>
> >>ressources ?
> >>pnp should call automatiquely pnp_activate_dev() before probing the
> >>driver, so the resource should be activated. Have you got an example
> >>where the resource wheren't activated ?
> >
> >
> > No, it was more that I don't understand what PnP does for
> >us. I don't have a SMS chipset to test on. Also, I would like to know
> >if it remove the need of smcinit.
> >
> PnP is easy to understand ;)
> When you probe a device, it will activate a device with the best
> configuration available.

So can we just remove the IORESOURCE_DISABLED tests?

And what about the pnp_*_valid() tests?

parport_pc (which I used as a guide) does both tests but 8250_pnp doesn't
do either.

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Ville Syrjälä
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