the patch that got away...

[Manfred Spraul]

Dominik Brodowski wrote:

>Hi,
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>On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:21:29AM -0800, Sean G. wrote:
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>>this fixes my problem with unable to apply power
>>http://hulllug.principalhosting.net/archive/index.php/t-349.html
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>Thanks for making me aware of this patch.
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>>I manually modified the yenta_socket file so I don't know if the patch
>>applies cleanly or not
>>can the patch in the link be added to the kernel? its in the 2.4 series
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>As it seems to help in several cases (e.g. also in the "Cardbus memory
>problem" reported a few days ago on this list), I've modified it for 2.6.
>(module_param, re-diff) and added it to the queue of patches I'll send off 
>to akpm once the next -mm is out. It's appended below for reference
>purposes; would be great if you, Manfred, could sign it off.
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Done, see below. But not tested due to lack of hardware.
Btw, the main reason why I didn't write a 2.5 patch is that the patch is 
ugly: The override should be automatic, based on DMI strings or a 
similar blacklist. But I never had the time to actually write that code.
So I agree: the patch should be merged - it's better than nothing.

>	Dominik
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>From: Manfred Spraul 
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>[PATCH] yenta: Add override_bios flag to ignore BIOS resource allocation
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>Several BIOSes assign a small window for i/o access to yenta bridges. But
>there are Cardbus cards that needs lots of i/o ports. yenta usually
>honors the bios selected values, except if the bios choice is clearly
>invalid. The patch allows an override from the command line.
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Signed-Off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred at colorfullife.com>