linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] Recurse when searching for empty slots in resources trees

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:45:14 +0400
From:	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@...com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Recurse when searching for empty slots in
	resources trees

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 04:32:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > So your patch may fix a bug, but I'm pretty sure I've seen a patch from 
> > Ivan that should _also_ fix it, and that I would expect to do it not by 
> > just tweaking a fundamentally ambiguous case.
> 
> Hmm. For the life of me, I can't seem to find this patch. Maybe it wasn't 
> Ivan who wrote it after all. Or maybe my google-fu is weak. Or maybe I'm 
> just delusional, and the patch never existed.

No, it wasn't me.

Anyway, pci_claim_resource() fix suggested by Matthew seems to be
correct, if the problematic system was indeed ia64 and not x86.

Ivan.
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