linux-kernel - Re: missing request_region in pnpbios_probe

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Message-Id: <1157971263.23085.123.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:41:03 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: missing request_region in pnpbios_probe_system

Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 11:57 +0200, ysgrifennodd Olaf Hering:
> Does anyone know why pnpbios_probe_system() does no request_region()
> before it reads from 0xf0000 to 0xffff0?

It's the system ROM. It's not a private resource.

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