On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:25:00PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:51:23 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:30:04AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > > It definitely does. At least on some of the affected boards, no access > > > to the I/O area in question is done at all as long as the asus_atk0110 > > > driver is not loaded. > > > > You've audited the system management code? > > No, I did not. But you did not review the system management code of all > computers out there either, and you are still writing kernel code that > could be broken by it. So what's the point? If the firmware tells us that a resource range using indexed access is reserved, it's not safe to assume that the firmware isn't using it. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
