Re: Kernel 2.4.21

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On 25.07.03, you wrote:
> >> I looked though the code, but didn't find anything suspicious. The only
> >> difference is that 2.4.21 starts allocating from resource region 0, while
> >> 2.4.18 started allocaction from resource region 1. Could it be a problem?
> >> Where could I change it?
> 
> > Check which resource is used as the parent resource. Probably the PCI
> > resources don't lie completely within the passed parent.
> 
> OK, but how can I do this? Sorry, but I know nothing about Linux PCI system
> and everything around it is mysterious for me.

In kernel/resoure.c:request_resource(), print the contents of the passed `root'
and `new' resources. The routine will fail if new isn't a subset of root, but
you want to know why it happens.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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