Subject: Re: Latest paulus.git PCI broken on mpc8540?

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:20:39 +1100

> 
> I don't know much of the code, so, propably a stupid question:
> Can we avoid to do the initial resource allocation, when it's known to fail?
> 
> It seems to me like things are done twice here:
> 1. try
> 2. reallocate
> 3. retry

Well, we don't know it's going to fail until we try :-)

Ben.