Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Cosmetics - improper registration of resources (floppy.c, serial.c) | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:26:21 +0200 | From | Alain KNAFF <> |
| |
>Hi, > >this is only a minor cosmetic issue, but drivers/block/floppy.c and >drivers/char/serial.c do not properly register the used resources (IRQ's).
This is intentional (at least for the floppy driver). The reason is to allow sharing of the floppy disk controller with the ftape device driver. Both the floppy and the ftape driver only grab the IRQ and the DMA when they are in use. Thus both device drivers can coexist, while still arbitrating access to the shared resource.
Alain
-----------------------------------------------------------------------. Email: Alain.Knaff@inrialpes.fr Alain Lucien Knaff . Tel.(work): (33) 76 61 52 68 . Tel.(home): (33) 76 85 23 05 Appartement 310b . (répondeur) =====O=====/ 11,rue Général Mangin. Fax : (33) 76 61 52 52 =====O=====/ 38100 Grenoble France.
|  |