linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC] adjust legacy IDE resource setting

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Message-ID: <20070214160936.54b3c730@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:09:36 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	<alan@...hat.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] adjust legacy IDE resource setting

> The masking is done primarily to (a) calculate the correct length (from a BAR's
> perspective), as I don't want to write the BAR if its length doesn't match the
> expectation, and (b) to properly report the new value in the printk.

Ok I guess you have to do something like that since you can't properly
encode BAR 1 and BAR 3.

> Of course I also opened a bug against X, as I too think it's doing something
> wrong here.

If you can add a comment about why it is done (X problem) then it looks
fine to me.

Alan
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