2.6.33-rc3 regression: leds_alix2: can't allocate I/O for GPIO
Arnd Hannemann
hannemann at nets.rwth-aachen.de
Thu Jan 7 06:58:04 EST 2010
Richard Purdie schrieb:
> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:26 +0100, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
>> with 2.6.33-rc3 the LEDs are not working anymore on my Geode embedded board:
>> If I remember correctly this was working fine with 2.6.32, but certainly with 2.6.31
>>
>> relevant dmesg output of 2.6.33-rc3:
>>
>> [ 0.709643] cs5535_gpio: base=0x6100 mask=0xb003c66 major=253
>>
>> [ 2.207947] leds_alix2: system is recognized as "PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h"
>> [ 2.228678] leds_alix2: can't allocate I/O for GPIO
>>
>>
>> For reference dmesg of 2.6.31.3:
>>
>> [ 0.611953] cs5535_gpio: base=0x6100 mask=0xb003c66 major=253
>>
>> [ 2.379114] leds_alix2: system is recognized as "PC Engines ALIX.2"
>> [ 2.399097] Registered led device: alix:1
>> [ 2.411404] Registered led device: alix:2
>> [ 2.423720] Registered led device: alix:3
>
> Its likely to be commit 7f131cf3ed96c969d7b092bf629e25c3df50901e. It
> looks like the request_region() call is failing. Daniel, any idea why?
Some additional debug information:
elara:~# rdmsr 0x5140000C
f00100006100
/proc/ioports says:
6100-61ff : 0000:00:0f.0
6100-61ff : cs5535_gpio
BTW: why is request_region() needed there after all?
Best regards,
Arnd
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