On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 03:49:51PM +0100, Manuel Lauss wrote: > Alchemy PCMCIA IO lies outside the 32bit address space and needs to > be ioremapped to be accessible. The resulting address is > then fed as IO-port base to all PCMCIA client drivers attached > to a particular socket. pata_pcmcia does devm_ioport_map() on > the port address, which returns errors because MIPS' ioport_map() > implementation rejects incoming port addresses which are not > within the 0..64k window. Other embedded architectures don't > bother with a check like this; this patch brings MIPS in line > and in turn makes pata_pcmcia work on all my Alchemy systems > (and doesn't break PCI). The reason for this had something to do with multiple PCI busses with devices using I/O ports but I forgot what it was :). Need to think about this one. Ralf
