1 Feb
2008
1 Feb
'08
1:50 a.m.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Robert Hancock wrote:
I think so. There was one objection that it introduced a dependency on pnpacpi loading after PCI bus enumeration, though.
Linus also suggested that pnpacpi could be marking the resources as "present but unused" so that drivers can request those regions but we still prevent dynamically assigning resources into them.
I _think_ that's what ACPI used to do before switching over to the PnPACPI thing, so I do think that "present but not reserved" approach is not just the right one, but also the (historically) tested one.
Linus