newbus ioport usage

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20040126172211.J30603 at root.org>
            Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> writes:
: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20040126165523.W30461 at root.org>
: >             Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> writes:
: > : Ok, I'm doing the set/alloc and it works.  However, one weird thing.  If I
: > : allocate all ports at boot time, it succeeds.  My driver goes through
: > : multiple release/allocate cycles and it all works as expected.  However if
: > : I boot and attach to only one of the registers, subsequent attempts to
: > : attach the second one fail.  The resources are 2 IO ports, 0x101c and
: > : 0x101d.  Both are 1 byte.
: >
: > Deos devinfo -r show any cause for the problem?  Maybe you aren't
: > releasing them properly?  Also, why not allocate them as a block of 2?
: 
: I'll look into that.  I can't allocate them in one block as they come and
: go, based on system state.  In one state, one is available and in another,
: both are available.  If I boot while only one is available and then you
: plug in the AC adapter, new ones appear.  This is acpi, btw.

Ummm, wouldn't they both always be allocated to the driver, even if
you could only talk to one of them at any given time?

Warner