Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:37:39 +0000 | From | Adam Belay <> | Subject | Re: simple pnp bios io resources bug makes system unusable |
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:54:10AM -0400, CarlosRomero wrote: > my one line patch just skips an io registration with a simple sanity check. > never once have i heard a device with an ioport of 0x0.
AT DMA controller as stated in my other message, is one example.
> question is why it happens and only once.
It only happens once because in 99% of cases the entire device is disabled, not just an individual range.
> (also noticing cutoff in /sys/devices/pci0/*/name)
There is a hard limit for device name length, see include/linux/device.h. That is probably the cause.
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