Re: acpi resource reservation

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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:36:03PM +0000, matthieu castet wrote:

> I believe by doing that acpi will avoid that other drivers try to use the same r
> esource. And it will avoid the acpi_check_region hack that need to be added in e
> ach driver instead of relying with the standard
> request_region/request_mem_region mecanism.

It was attempted, but you hit a huge number of cases where ACPI has 
reserved resources that are required by other drivers. We could 
whitelist them, but it doesn't seem to buy a great deal.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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