Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] floppy: request only the ports we actually use | Date | Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:55:33 -0700 |
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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.
Bjorn
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