Hi,

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> Alistair tried to write a patch to get the kernel not to probe devices
> at I/O addresses where devices were previously detected, but it was
> done wrong and it's not necessarily a good strategy (false positives
> can become very damaging, e.g. for the mcd device).

Thy is it the wrong approach not to probe devices at I/O addresses
where devices were previously detected? I think if a device has been
found at a particular I/O address no other device can reside at the
same address, or am I wrong with this assumtion?

Thanx for clarification,

  Guenther