Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
On Saturday 10 February 2007 21:27, Len Brown wrote:
acpi_find_bmc() appears to be searching for
multiple SPMI tables in the RSDT and running
try_init_acpi() on each of them
until it doesn't find any more.
I can't remember why we look at the SPMI table(s) rather than
registering a normal ACPI (or even PNP) driver. Unless we
need to poke the BMC very early, wouldn't it be better to
rely on the device description in the namespace?
For some strange reason the normal ACPI information does not
have all the information needed by the driver. It doesn't have
register size or spacing information.
-Corey
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