On Mon, 05 May 2008 16:36:36 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote: > PNP used to have a fixed-size pnp_resource_table for tracking the > resources used by a device. This table often overflowed, so we've > had to increase the table size, which wastes memory because most > devices have very few resources. > > This patch replaces the table with a linked list of resources where > the entries are allocated on demand. > > This removes messages like these: > > pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources > 00:01: too many I/O port resources > > References: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9535 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9740 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/30/110 > > This patch also changes the way PNP uses the IORESOURCE_UNSET, > IORESOURCE_AUTO, and IORESOURCE_DISABLED flags. This patch kills my prehistoric dual PIII. http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/p5135912.jpg http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-vmm.txt http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-vmm.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
