On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:10:30PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > My position is that the driver should change as few things as possible. > Hardware monitoring chips are a sensible realm. Enabling or disabling an > interrupt line or the like can cause the hardware to react (fan to full > speed or even shutdown) and we have had many reports that this happened. > So I think that the chip drivers should, by default, consider that the > chip is well configured for the hardware/bios settings, and initialize > very few things. My drivers work that way (not for the limits yet, but > for the rest). I agree, this should be our policy. Any current 2.6 drivers that violate this? thanks, greg k-h
