Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.28-rc2 hates my e1000e

[Linus T. <tor...@li...>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> then we don't need e820_reserve_resources_late, right?

Wrong.

Think about exactly the broken case: a buggy e820 BIOS sets the e820 map 
resource listing so that it *straddles* a real physical resource.

The fact is, the "late" part isn't because of IORESOURCE_BUSY. It's 
because FIRMWARE IS INEVITABLY A STINKING PILE OF BUGGY SH*T THAT MUST 
NOT BE ALLOWED TO SCREW UP DEVICE DISCOVERY.

Sorry for shouting, but people really need to understand this.

			Linus