On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Avuton Olrich wrote:
With v2.6.24 my second ALSA sound device stopped working.
Hmm. Why is PnP ACPI called before PCI probing? That seems to be the problem here - we should *never* have any firmware allocation block known hardware BARs, they should only be blocking new dynamic allocations.
Hmm. I wonder if the problem is that ACPIPnP marks the regions busy. That would be wrong. They shouldn't be busy, they should just "exist".
A busy region will stop a "request_region()" (incorrect for this case - thats' not what the PnP resurce allocation should be all about), but an *existing* resource will just stop a new resource being dynamically assigned to that address (not not stop a known resource from using it).
So maybe the ACPIPnP allocation is doen at the right moment, just doing the wrong thing..
Linus