Re:standard_io_resources[]

James Simmons (jsimmons@linux-fbdev.org)
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:13:05 -0800 (PST)


>Isn't that a job of the device drivers?

Well most of those resources are present on every PC motherboard.

>In KGI we have our own keyboard driver which tries to allocate the
>kayboard I/O range for itself, and when it does io_check_region() it
>fails. What should I do?

This will also be the case for 2.5.X. We already have the PS/2 keyboard
ported over to the input api. Since we can in theory have a USB system and
then later attach a PS/2 keyboard we have it so the resources are
allocated for PS/2 keyboards.

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