From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net, rjw@sisk.pl, willy@linux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, andrew.patterson@hp.com
Subject: Re: PCI resources allocation problem on Toshiba Satellite A40
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:35:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908141935.41529.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0908140957050.3162@localhost.localdomain>
On Friday 14 August 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So the fact that it "worked" for a few kernels was simply due to a
> kernel bug, where "pci_claim_resource()" incorrectly allowed the
> resource to be inserted into a resource window that wasn't actually its
> parent, and a crazy BIOS that did crazy things, together with a chipset
> where those crazy things just _happened_ to work because of how
> decoding was done.
OK. Thanks for taking a look. I'll happily ignore the error messages from
now on. Luckily confirmation that things work correctly when faced with
broken BIOSes can be useful too :-)
Cheers,
FJP
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-02 14:19 [Regression] PCI resources allocation problem on HP nx6325 Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-08-02 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-02 17:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-08-02 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-02 17:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-08-02 20:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-08-02 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 3:10 ` Andrew Patterson
2009-08-03 21:14 ` Andrew Patterson
2009-08-03 16:59 ` Manuel Lauss
2009-08-04 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-05 15:51 ` Manuel Lauss
2009-08-05 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-05 16:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-05 17:09 ` Manuel Lauss
2009-08-07 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-07 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-11 16:47 ` Manuel Lauss
2009-08-13 18:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-13 19:28 ` Frans Pop
2009-08-13 19:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-13 20:35 ` Frans Pop
2009-08-14 1:40 ` PCI resources allocation problem on Toshiba Satellite A40 Frans Pop
2009-08-14 1:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-14 16:50 ` Frans Pop
2009-08-14 17:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-14 17:35 ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-08-02 16:59 ` [Regression] PCI resources allocation problem on HP nx6325 Matthew Wilcox
2009-08-02 20:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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