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Message-ID: <47C75392.3020606@garzik.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:36:34 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
CC:	Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: devres and requesting resources

Something I just noticed, which I missed during the initial devres review...

The vast majority of my ATA drivers originally called 
pci_request_regions(), to reserve all regions attached to a device.

In converting to pcim_iomap_regions(), we no longer reserve /all/ 
regions, only the ones requested.

This is actually a bug:  it was intentional to call 
pci_request_regions(), because that ensures that no other software will 
use our resources -- even if we are not actively using the resource in 
question.

Or IOW, I wanted to ensure that there would be no device sharing... 
which this devres conversion accidentally enabled.

The simple fix is obviously to replace pci_request_region() call with 
pci_request_regions() in lib/devres.c, but I wonder if that will break 
any existing driver?

	Jeff


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