On Thursday 14 February 2008 01:26:59 pm Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > On Thursday 14 February 2008 12:42:52 pm Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > It *shouldn't* fail. > > > > > > Things should fail only when two different drivers have requested the same > > > region. NOT when something tells the system that a region _exists_. > > > > The sound driver doesn't fail because two different drivers have > > requested the same region; it fails because PNP told us a region > > exists, and the sound region crosses the edge of the PNP region. > > Right, and that was a bug. > > It *shouldn't* fail. The PnP resource should be inserted _after_ the > PCI region has been inserted, and _that_ should fail, since the PnP region > is crap and cannot be inserted "half-way". That means the PNP system driver has to be registered after the PCI driver. We can't guarantee that, especially if the sound driver is a module. Bjorn _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
