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From: Nikolai Saoukh <nms@otdel-1.org>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: Reserving Resources
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:30:08AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:

> : I do not like the idea of resource consumation. Is there a
> : description of the problems which might arose without it?
> 
> Machine deadlock, undetected irq conflict causing misbehavior, probing 
> hardware for device foo and locking the machine because device bar is
> really there.

Disaster can happens with legacy hardware. ;-(
What is wrong with PNP?


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