Re: resource questions [initio driver fixes (?)]

From: Thomas Graichen (news-list.linux.kernel@innominate.de)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 08:42:44 EST


Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> the initio driver (ini9100u.c) calls request_region (and silently
>> fails) thus release_region says "freeing nonexistent ressource"
>> (at least this is what i think) - my question now is - why does
>> request_region fail ? - some more details: (btw. the release_region

> Because the region is in use or isnt valid. Most likely its trying to
> grab the wrong thing or wrong size. Check the requestion region is for
> 0x6100, 256 bytes

that was it - the base was wrong - i will post a fixing patch for
all this in the initio drivers soon - thanks a lot

t

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