On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >
> > * next part of IDE probing code re-organization saga
> > (that would be me)
>
> This seems to cause very irritating and bogus messages for me:
>
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> ide2: I/O resource 0x0-0x7 not free.
> ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide3: I/O resource 0x0-0x7 not free.
> ide3: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide4: I/O resource 0x0-0x7 not free.
> ide4: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide5: I/O resource 0x0-0x7 not free.
> ide5: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide6: I/O resource 0x0-0x7 not free.
> ide6: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide7: I/O resource 0x0-0x7 not free.
> ide7: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide8: I/O resource 0x0-0x7 not free.
> ide8: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide9: I/O resource 0x0-0x7 not free.
> ide9: ports already in use, skipping probe
>
> and that's just totally bogus. It shouldn't even request that region,
> since it's not been allocated!
The commit
139ddfcab50e5eabcc88341c8743a990ac1be6a2 ("ide: move handling of
I/O resources out of ide_probe_port()") changed the ordering of hwif->noprobe
check vs ide_hwif_request_regions() call (so that we now reserve I/O regions
before checking for hwif->noprobe). However ide-generic host driver depended
on hwif->noprobe to be set for skipping probing of empty ide_hwifs[] slots.
Fix it by passing only indexes of non-empty slots to ide_device_add_all()
from ide_generic_init().
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>