Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use check_legacy_ioport() for ISAPnP

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:00:50 +0200

On Mon, Oct 02, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:38 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 
> > The new check in parport_pc_init() will prevent the probing of PCI
> > devices. I guess the correct fix would be a sophisticated
> > pmac_check_legacy_ioport() that checks if baseport is available on
> > some PCI device:
> 
> That or only call check_legacy_ioport() when we're poking _gratuitously_
> at legacy space, not when there's a properly-detected port.

It is CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO=y that is causing trouble. Lets see what
lkml has to say about this config option.