On Wednesday 05 July 2006 16:18, Andrew Morton wrote: > Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You recently proposed pushing it: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=115119275408021&w=2 > > Len initially nacked it, but I think the outcome of the discussion > > is that Shaohua doesn't object to this patch. He probably would > > still like to blacklist PNP0A03, but that's an additional step we > > don't have to take at the same time. > > OK, well let's please push this up the priority list and work out what want > to do. If Len's now OK with merging it then I think all lights are green?
My opinion is that we don't need to blacklist PNP0A03 unless we discover a problem. Len, Shaohua, can you ack this? > pnpacpi-reject-acpi_producer-resources.patch: > > From: matthieu castet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > A patch in -mm kernel correct the parsing of "address resources" of pnpacpi. > Before we assumed it was memory only, but it could be also IO. > > But this change show an hidden bug : some resources could be producer type > that are not handled by pnp layer. So we should ignore the producer > resources. > > This patch fixes bug 6292 (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6292). > Some devices like PNP0A03 have 0xd00-0xffff and 0x0-0xcf7 as IO producer > resources. > > Before correcting "address resources" parsing, it was seen as memory and was > harmless, because nobody tried to reserve this memory range as it should be > IO. > > With the correction it become IO resources, and make failed all others device > that want to register IO in this range and use pnp layer (like a ISA sound > card). > > The solution is to ignore producer resources > > Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Adam Belay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Brown, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > akpm: previously nacked, as per comment #26. But am hanging onto it until the > thing gets fixed for real. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > diff -puN > drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c~pnpacpi-reject-acpi_producer-resources > drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c > --- a/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c~pnpacpi-reject-acpi_producer-resources > +++ a/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c > @@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ pnpacpi_parse_allocated_address_space(st > return; > } > > + if (p->producer_consumer == ACPI_PRODUCER) > + return; > + > if (p->resource_type == ACPI_MEMORY_RANGE) > pnpacpi_parse_allocated_memresource(res_table, > p->minimum, p->address_length); > @@ -252,9 +255,14 @@ static acpi_status pnpacpi_allocated_res > break; > > case ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_EXTENDED_ADDRESS64: > + if (res->data.ext_address64.producer_consumer == ACPI_PRODUCER) > + return AE_OK; > break; > > case ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_EXTENDED_IRQ: > + if (res->data.extended_irq.producer_consumer == ACPI_PRODUCER) > + return AE_OK; > + > for (i = 0; i < res->data.extended_irq.interrupt_count; i++) { > pnpacpi_parse_allocated_irqresource(res_table, > res->data.extended_irq.interrupts[i], > _ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
