Hi Jean: * Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> [2006-05-24 09:57:30 +0200]: > Sorry for the late reply. > > > The sis96x SMBus PCI device depends on the order of two different > > quirks, which depends on link order. But this is apparently not > > guaranteed, as seen on a recent FC4 kernel. This patch fixes the > > quirk so that it works without depending on the link order. > > > > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2006-April/015962.html > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189719 > > > > This code was suggested by Jean Delvare; the patch was tested and > > should be considered for 2.6.17. > > I'm happier with this patch than the previous one. However, I'm still > not really comfortable with it. Given that we don't understand why the > quirk order suddenly became untrustworthy, it's hard to justify that we > want this fix in 2.6.17, especially when vanilla kernels are not > affected by the problem as far as I know. > > At any rate, this patch does belong to the pci tree and not the i2c > tree, so I am not the one who can push it. Please post this patch on > the linux-pci list and get it discussed there. Hopefully the people > there will be able to explain how the quirks sequencing works. That's fair enough. > (Please put me in Cc, I'm interested in the answer.) Thanks, -- Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman at lightlink.com
