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SubjectRe: [PATCH] floppy: request only the ports we actually use
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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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