[PATCH] IPMI: reserve I/O ports separately
authorCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Wed, 31 May 2006 04:25:57 +0000 (21:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 31 May 2006 23:27:10 +0000 (16:27 -0700)
commitd61a3ead268084cc271d7b2aa2950fc822a37cf5
treef131ce216814f65a560dd04cc0627e94dfb930f2
parent44d7aff035118e8c3993aa3fa05d358d1008e982
[PATCH] IPMI: reserve I/O ports separately

From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>

This patch is pretty important to get in for IPMI, new systems have been
changing the way ACPI and IPMI interact, and this works around the problems
for now.  This is a temporary fix until we get proper ACPI handling in
IPMI.

Fixed releasing already-allocated regions when a later request fails, and
forward-ported it to HEAD.

Some BIOSes reserve disjoint I/O regions in their ACPI tables for the IPMI
controller.  This causes problems when trying to register the entire I/O
region.  Therefore we must register each I/O port separately.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c