On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When the user passes the kernel parameter acpi_enforce_resources=lax, > the ACPI resources are no longer protected, so a native driver can > make use of them. In that case, we do not want the asus_atk0110 to be > loaded. Unfortunately, this driver loads automatically due to its > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE, so the user ends up with two drivers loaded for > the same device - this is bad. > > So I suggest that we prevent the asus_atk0110 driver from loading if > acpi_enforce_resources=lax. > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Luca, what do you think? I had the idea to write this patch after > seeing this bug report: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580988 > I'm not sure if the driver conflict is the root cause of the problem, > but it certainly did not help. The patch look good. > Another approach would be to hide the ATK0110 ACPI device itself, but I > don't know if it is possible? AFAIK it's not possible. Luca _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
