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author | Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> | 2009-02-18 14:48:36 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-02-18 15:37:55 -0800 |
commit | 5a74db06cc8d36a325913aa4968ae169f997a466 (patch) | |
tree | 68eb369ba49b4c764d4900ae41b5115c615a8a83 /REPORTING-BUGS | |
parent | ffa7525c13eb3db0fd19a3e1cffe2ce6f561f5f3 (diff) |
floppy: request and release only the ports we actually use
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 and release only the ports it
actually uses. It also factors out the request/release stuff and the
io-ports list so they're all in one place now.
The current floppy driver uses only these ports:
0x3f2 (FD_DOR)
0x3f4 (FD_STATUS)
0x3f5 (FD_DATA)
0x3f7 (FD_DCR/FD_DIR)
but it requests 0x3f2-0x3f5 and 0x3f7, which includes the unused port
0x3f3.
Some BIOSes report 0x3f3 as a motherboard resource. The PNP system driver
reserves that, which causes a conflict when the floppy driver requests
0x3f2-0x3f5 later.
Philippe reported that this conflict broke the floppy driver between
2.6.11 and 2.6.22. His PNPBIOS reports these devices:
$ cat 00:07/id 00:07/resources # motherboard device
PNP0c02
state = active
io 0x80-0x80
io 0x10-0x1f
io 0x22-0x3f
io 0x44-0x5f
io 0x90-0x9f
io 0xa2-0xbf
io 0x3f0-0x3f1
io 0x3f3-0x3f3
$ cat 00:03/id 00:03/resources # floppy device
PNP0700
state = active
io 0x3f4-0x3f5
io 0x3f2-0x3f2
Reference:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/31/162
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Reported-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Tested-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Adam M Belay <abelay@mit.edu>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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