Re: [PATCH, RFC] adjust legacy IDE resource setting

[Petri Kaukasoina]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:05:24PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The change to force legacy mode IDE channels' resources to fixed
> non-zero values confuses (at least some versions of) X, because the
> values reported by the kernel and those readable from PCI config space
> aren't consistent anymore. Therefore, this patch arranges for the
> respective BARs to also get updated if possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.20/drivers/pci/probe.c	2007-02-04 19:44:54.000000000 +0100
> +++ 2.6.20-pci-ide-legacy/drivers/pci/probe.c	2007-02-14 15:54:58.000000000 +0100

...

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:09:36PM +0000, Alan wrote:
> > Of course I also opened a bug against X, as I too think it's doing something
> > wrong here.
> 
> If you can add a comment about why it is done (X problem) then it looks
> fine to me.

This would be nice in 2.6.20-stable, too.
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