Re: PCI resources allocation problem on Toshiba Satellite A40

[Frans Pop]

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
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