Re: [BUG] IDE: 2.6.26-rc5-git5 ide_generic leaks resources breaking my NE2000 NIC

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Sun Jun 15 2008 - 14:53:32 EST


Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz writes:
> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] ide-generic: don't probe all legacy ISA IDE ports by default
>
> We can't probe all legacy ISA IDE ports by default as the resources may be
> occupied by other ISA devices. Add "probe_mask" module parameter and probe
> only first two ISA IDE ports by default leaving the decision about probing
> the rest to the user (systems with ISA ide2-6 should be very, very rare).
>
> This fixes a regression caused by:
>
> commit 343a3451e20314d5959b59b992e33fbaadfe52bf
> Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Jun 10 20:56:36 2008 +0200
>
> ide-generic: add missing hwif->chipset setup
> ...
>
> Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>
> Bisected-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>

This fixes the regression on my old box. Thanks.

Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/ide/ide-generic.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-generic.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-generic.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
>
> #define DRV_NAME "ide_generic"
>
> +static int probe_mask = 0x03;
> +module_param(probe_mask, int, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(probe_mask, "probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports");
> +
> static ssize_t store_add(struct class *cls, const char *buf, size_t n)
> {
> ide_hwif_t *hwif;
> @@ -89,6 +93,9 @@ static int __init ide_generic_init(void)
> u8 idx[MAX_HWIFS];
> int i;
>
> + printk(KERN_INFO DRV_NAME ": please use \"probe_mask=0x3f\" module "
> + "parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports\n");
> +
> for (i = 0; i < MAX_HWIFS; i++) {
> ide_hwif_t *hwif;
> unsigned long io_addr = ide_default_io_base(i);
> @@ -96,7 +103,7 @@ static int __init ide_generic_init(void)
>
> idx[i] = 0xff;
>
> - if (io_addr) {
> + if ((probe_mask & (1 << i)) && io_addr) {
> if (!request_region(io_addr, 8, DRV_NAME)) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "%s: I/O resource 0x%lX-0x%lX "
> "not free.\n",
>
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