Hi Lin, thanks for adding me. This is not "that" sever, but IMO this one should also be submitted to 2.6.30 stable kernels as it is a riskless revert of a patch fixing a regression. On Wednesday 01 July 2009 04:29:51 Lin Ming wrote: > Revert "ACPICA: Remove obsolete acpi_os_validate_address interface" > > This reverts commit f9ca058430333c9a24c5ca926aa445125f88df18. > > The quick fix of bug 13620 would be to revert the change. > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13620 > > Also, see the commit df92e695998e1bc6e426a840eb86d6d1ee87e2a5 > "ACPI: track opregion names to avoid driver resource conflicts." > > But there are problems we need to address: > > 1. We need to enhance the mechanism of avoiding driver resource > conflicts > to base a "resource" on Field definitions instead of Operation Region > definitions. Good idea, this could avoid some false positive detected region conflicts. > > 2. For dynamic region, we need an interface to call when an operation > region (field) is deleted, > in order to delete it from the resource list. > > 3. If the same region is created and added to resource list over and > over again, > this is have the potential to be a memory leak by growing the list > every time Region or field or both? How can this happen, can you show a little ASL snippet or explain this a bit more detailed, please. I do not fully understand what is meant in 3. Thanks, Thomas -- 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
