On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:24:33PM +0800, yakui_zhao wrote: > Subject: ACPI: Add the dmi check to make acpi_enforce_resources strict > From: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> > > On some boxes the SMBus PCI controller is not hidden. The SMbus I/O port > will be accessed in AML code. If the i2c driver is still loaded for the SMbus > PCI device, there is no synchronization between OS and BIOS. And the conflict > will happen. > So the dmi check is added so that the acpi_enforce_resources is strict when > the box falls into the dmi check table. In such case the i2c driver won't be > loaded for the SMbus pci device. I think the only safe behaviour here is to default to strict on all hardware. -- 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
