pata_legacy probes 6 io/ctr/irq combinations for devices.
Or rather, it loops, claims an io/ctr/irq combination, does
an ata_device_add(), and libata then does the probing.
However, the io/ctr/irq resource combinations aren't released
after failed probes (as in: no devices found). The result is
that other devices that need those resources fail to initialise.
On my ISA/VLB 486, pata_legacy leaves /proc/interrupts as follows:
CPU0
0: 19918 XT-PIC-XT timer
1: 363 XT-PIC-XT i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade
6: 5 XT-PIC-XT floppy
8: 1 XT-PIC-XT rtc
10: 3 XT-PIC-XT libata
11: 0 XT-PIC-XT libata
12: 0 XT-PIC-XT libata
14: 4865 XT-PIC-XT libata
15: 0 XT-PIC-XT libata
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
and /proc/ioports as follows:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-0021 : pic1
0040-0043 : timer0
0050-0053 : timer1
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-0077 : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00a1 : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
c1bc6c40-0000 : <BAD>
0168-016f : pata_legacy
0170-0177 : pata_legacy
01e0-01e7 : pata_legacy
01e8-01ef : pata_legacy
01f0-01f7 : pata_legacy
0366-0366 : pata_legacy
036e-036e : pata_legacy
0376-0376 : pata_legacy
03c0-03df : vga+
03e6-03e6 : pata_legacy
03ee-03ee : pata_legacy
03f2-03f5 : floppy
03f6-03f6 : pata_legacy
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
This later prevents the ne driver from finding the machine's
NE2000 network card (at io=0x300 irq=10):
ata1: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 14
scsi0 : pata_legacy
ata1.00: ATA-0: WDC AC32500H, 10.07H11, max MWDMA2
ata1.00: 4999680 sectors, multi 8: LBA
ata1.00: configured for PIO
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC AC32500H 10.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
SCSI device sda: 4999680 512-byte hdwr sectors (2560 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
DPO or FUA
SCSI device sda: 4999680 512-byte hdwr sectors (2560 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
DPO or FUA
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
ata2: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 15
scsi1 : pata_legacy
ata3: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x000101e8 ctl 0x000103ee bmdma 0x00000000 irq 11
scsi2 : pata_legacy
ata4: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x00010168 ctl 0x0001036e bmdma 0x00000000 irq 10
scsi3 : pata_legacy
ata5: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x000101e0 ctl 0x000103e6 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 8
platform pata_legacy.4: irq 8 request failed: -16
ata6: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x00010160 ctl 0x00010366 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 12
scsi5 : pata_legacy
...
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: failed to detect IRQ line.
ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x300
I think that pata_legacy.c:legacy_init_one() should have a test
after its ata_device_add(), so that if no devices were discovered
there is a 'goto fail;' to free the resources.
Apart from this issue, pata_legacy is working very well on this machine.
/Mikael
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