The patch titled ISDN: make ICN not autograb when builtin has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is isdn-make-icn-not-autograb-when-builtin.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ISDN: make ICN not autograb when builtin From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> The old ISDN ICN legacy ISA driver was found to break the boot during Ingo Molnar's testing of randconfig kernels by grabbing bus resources even without the hardware present. Insist that the (existing) icn=io parameter be specified when builtin so as to avoid such. This is a deprecated driver (stack, even) and highly likely unused. Nothing changes modular moreover. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@xxxxxxx> Cc: Fritz Elfert <fritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c~isdn-make-icn-not-autograb-when-builtin drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c --- a/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c~isdn-make-icn-not-autograb-when-builtin +++ a/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c @@ -1596,6 +1596,8 @@ icn_addcard(int port, char *id1, char *i } #ifndef MODULE +static int enable; + static int __init icn_setup(char *line) { @@ -1605,8 +1607,10 @@ icn_setup(char *line) static char sid2[20]; str = get_options(line, 2, ints); - if (ints[0]) + if (ints[0]) { portbase = ints[1]; + enable = 1; + } if (ints[0] > 1) membase = (unsigned long)ints[2]; if (str && *str) { @@ -1628,6 +1632,12 @@ static int __init icn_init(void) char *p; char rev[10]; +#ifndef MODULE + if (!enable) { + printk(KERN_INFO "ICN: please specify io\n"); + return -ENODEV; + } +#endif memset(&dev, 0, sizeof(icn_dev)); dev.memaddr = (membase & 0x0ffc000); dev.channel = -1; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx are v4l1-make-pms-not-autoprobe-when-builtin.patch v4l1-make-pms-not-autoprobe-when-builtin-update.patch i2c-dont-autograb-i2c-pca-is.patch isdn-make-icn-not-autograb-when-builtin.patch pnp-make-the-resource-type-an-unsigned-long.patch pnp-make-the-resource-type-an-unsigned-long-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html