Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] floppy: request only the ports we actually use | Date | Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:43:31 -0700 |
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On Thursday 05 February 2009 03:29:48 pm Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:55:33 -0700 > Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday 05 February 2009 10:48:59 am Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > The floppy driver requests an I/O port it doesn't need, and > > > sometimes this causes a conflict with a motherboard device > > > reported by PNPBIOS. > > > > > > This patch makes the floppy driver request only the ports it > > > actually uses. > > > ... > > > Philippe reported that this conflict broke the floppy driver between > > > 2.6.11 and 2.6.22. ... > > > > While this is old and BIOS-specific, it is a regression, so we might > > consider it for 2.6.29. > > And earlier, surely?
Sure, I'm OK with that. I haven't heard any complaints, so maybe we want it in -mm for a while before putting it in stable?
> I tagged it > > Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x] > > (I'm not sure if 2.6.25.x is still being maintained by Greg & Chris, > but other parties are maintaining 2.6.25-based kernels, and such > tagging might help them).
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