linux-kernel - Re: speakup bug

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Date:	Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:06:49 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"John G. Heim" <jheim@...h.wisc.edu>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: speakup bug

On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 20:03:48 -0600
"John G. Heim" <jheim@...h.wisc.edu> wrote:

> From: Alan Cox
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:39 AM
> Subject: Re: speakup bug
> 
> >> returns an error code. But it looks as if the region for a serial port,
> >> 0x3f8 - 0x3ff,  in ioport_resource cannot be reserved because the entire
> >> range from 0x000 through 0xcf7 is already taken by something named "PCI 
> >> Bus
> >> 0000:00".  Therefore calling request_resource always fails and the driver
> > f>or the speech synth errors out.
> >
> >It's a heirarchical space, so you can allocate things within it. Look
> >at /proc/ioports.
> 
> # file /proc/ioports
> /proc/ioports: empty

Try cat on it not file
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