On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:32:51PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > >> Sure, but why do you insist on having the user configure this manually >> when we can automate this at the kernel level? When >> acpi_enforce_resouce=yes, the kernel doesn't let non-ACPI driver be >> loaded, so I fail to see why we let ACPI drivers (for which we also >> have native drivers) load when acpi_enforce_resouce=no. > > Because the situation with the asus driver loaded isn't obviously any > worse than not having it loaded. The user is telling us that they're > happy with racy access to their hwmon hardware. "lax" option is typically used when the user wants to load the native driver; in this case we know that it's not safe to load asus driver. Luca -- 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
