linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Led driver for technologic systems 5500

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:18:23 +0000
From:	Sean Young <sean@...s.org>
To:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Led driver for technologic systems 5500

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:31:32AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:14 +0000, Sean Young wrote:
> > Here is a patch for the led on the Technologic Systems 5500 board. The
> > first patch had a bug in an error path. Detection is still a bit flimsy; Is 
> > there anything that can be done about that?
> 
> I'm not really familiar with how x86 does the machine detection but I
> agree the detection looks a bit flimsy. Can anyone advise on how this
> hardware could be better detected?

I think that's why DMI was invented, AFAIK. I have no idea whether how many
X86 devices exist on these I/O ports (0x77/0x74). The only other thing I can 
think of is that this is an AMD Elan so the Kconfig could depend on ELAN 
and not X86.


Sean
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