linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pci: Omit error message for benign allocation failure

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Message-ID: <4756C140.6040601@ce.jp.nec.com>
Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:18:24 -0500
From:	"Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
To:	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, jbeulich@...ell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: Omit error message for benign allocation failure

Gary Hade wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:23:32PM -0500, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote:
>> Kernel always tries to. But it's best effort basis, IMO.
>> (Maybe your patch is going to fix that?)
> 
> If you are seeing the allocation failures both with and
> without my original patch I doubt that an improved version
> would work.  In my case, the BIOS had allowed sufficient
> resource for the expansion ROMs but was expecting the kernel
> to get it from the non-prefetch instead of prefetch window.

OK. Then it's different from mine.
Thanks for the info.

Regards,
-- 
Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Corporation of America
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