On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:36:03PM +0000, matthieu castet wrote: > I believe by doing that acpi will avoid that other drivers try to use the same r > esource. And it will avoid the acpi_check_region hack that need to be added in e > ach driver instead of relying with the standard > request_region/request_mem_region mecanism. It was attempted, but you hit a huge number of cases where ACPI has reserved resources that are required by other drivers. We could whitelist them, but it doesn't seem to buy a great deal. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
