On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:25:55PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Here comes the finalized version of our patch solving the PCI device > resource conflict between the i2c-viapro bus driver and and the via686a > chip driver. It is based on your original work and the IRC conversation > we had yesterday. > > The retained solution is to not permanently register the PCI device in > either driver. This is legitimate since we only need it at init time to > retrieve the ISA address of a sub-device (SMBus master or integrated > sensors), and possibly change that address on user request. Once this is > done we can safely release the PCI device for others to use. > > I am really glad to see this problem finally solved, as this was the > last remaining annoying issue left from the Linux 2.6 migration (missing > drivers left apart), and was generating many complaints both at our > level and at the distributions' support. > > Please apply, What kernel tree is this against? I get some rejects when trying to apply it. thanks, greg k-h
