On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote: [...] > So back to the discussion about changing the default of > acpi_enforce_resources to strict, Jean and I have been discussing this on > IRC and we feel it will most likely cause too much pain. So we would like to > suggest to make the default depend up on the motherboard. Our plan is to > have the default be "auto" and that will mean "lax", unless the motherboard > is atk0110 (Asus ACPI interface for reading hwmon data) capable and in that > case "auto" will mean "strict" Hum, that would mean putting ATK specific code into ACPI subsystem. It's not pretty :S > The plan is then to merge this acpi subsystem change and the atk0110 driver > at the same time, so that people will get different hwmon capabilities, but > won't loose hwmon capabilities all together. Important note: this is meant > as an temporary state of affairs, the end goal is to make the checking > strict. > > Luca do you think you could do a patch implementing the described "auto" > value for acpi_enforce_resources ? So the logic would be: - if ATK node is present and the driver is enabled -> strict - otherwise -> auto I don't if I can use the ACPI interpreter early enough to check the DSDT though; AFAICS the alternatives are: - DMI which would require an entry for each mobo (notebooks don't have the ATK interface) - an initcall in the ATK driver that overrides the value of acpi_enforce_resources to strict Luca
