linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] floppy: request only the ports we actually use

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Message-Id: <200902051055.34149.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:55:33 -0700
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Philippe De Muyter <phdm@...qel.be>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>,
	Adam M Belay <abelay@....edu>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: request only the ports we actually use

On Thursday 05 February 2009 10:48:59 am Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> The floppy driver requests an I/O port it doesn't need, and
> sometimes this causes a conflict with a motherboard device
> reported by PNPBIOS.
> 
> This patch makes the floppy driver request only the ports it
> actually uses.
> ...
> Philippe reported that this conflict broke the floppy driver between
> 2.6.11 and 2.6.22.  ...

While this is old and BIOS-specific, it is a regression, so we might
consider it for 2.6.29.

Bjorn
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