Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:32:51PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:

> Sure, but why do you insist on having the user configure this manually
> when we can automate this at the kernel level? When
> acpi_enforce_resouce=yes, the kernel doesn't let non-ACPI driver be
> loaded, so I fail to see why we let ACPI drivers (for which we also
> have native drivers) load when acpi_enforce_resouce=no.

Because the situation with the asus driver loaded isn't obviously any 
worse than not having it loaded. The user is telling us that they're 
happy with racy access to their hwmon hardware. Automatically blocking 
the loading of the ACPI driver does nothing other than imply to the user 
that things are safe, when in reality they're anything but.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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