Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc5

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Aug 28 2006 - 14:41:06 EST


On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 11:40 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:50:07 -0400
> Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:04.0
> >
> > Also happens on 2.6.16.28 and 2.6.17.11, so not a regression.
>
> Well it's not a post-2.6.17 regression. But it's something which quite a few
> people have been reporting in recent months. I don't _think_ it's associated
> with any consistent runtime failures, but otoh I don't think we know what
> caused it.

in itself this can just happen (bios issue, but if the bars are unused
no big deal)... the kernel has gotten more verbose afaik though.

It CAN cause real issues so I'm not saying there's no problem or no
regression, it's just that the printk alone isn't serious.


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