On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:51 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: > > >> Michael Sedkowski wrote: ---snip--- > > > Any chances of changing things > > > so that we inspect/snoop all tasks sent to the device, and filter them > > > out, or react to them accordingly? > > > > No, we can't unless we snoop ACPI method execution and detect accesses > > to IO ports or iomem regions. It's not going through any driver. This > > is a gross mess. > > I don't mean fixing the stuff clowns like Toshiba did. The correct fix for > that is to blacklist the hell out of that crap and patch their DSDT into > something remotely sane. > > I do mean snooping the ACPI methods that *return* a taskset to send to the > driver, and we send that taskset ourselves in libata and libpata(?). I haven't read the whole thread in every detail, but this sounds like a very intrusive, overdosed workaround. Are the DSDT/SSDTs already lying around somewhere (collecting them in a bug assigned to ACPI component should be a good idea)? Could someone give me a pointer where this happens (best in code and DSDT). Thanks, Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
