[RFC] setting resources available to pcmcia

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Thu Jun 12 22:29:21 BST 2003


On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:15:34PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Assuming that the kernel knows what resources are available, yes. However, I
> seem to recall that this is too risky an assumption to be a viable solution.
> Russell or others, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Why should userspace know better than the kernel?  Yes, we might need
a sysfs interface for user-configurable overrides, but the kernel should
have sane defaults without any userspace interaction.




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