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

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

"lax" option is typically used when the user wants to load the native
driver; in this case we know that it's not safe to load asus driver.

Luca

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