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Message-Id: <20060901125648.11883533.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:56:48 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To: "Bjorn Helgaas" <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
Cc: kmannth@...ibm.com, bjorn.helgaas@...com, lenb@...nel.org,
robert.moore@...el.com, shaohua.li@...el.com, malattia@...ux.it,
akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: one more ACPI Error (utglobal-0125): Unknown exception code:
0xFFFFFFEA [Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3]
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:15:55 -0600 (MDT)
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bjorn.helgaas@...com> wrote:
> Ok, this is starting to make sense. It sounds like your memory
> device has _HID of PNP0C80 and _CID of PNP0C01 (or PNP0C02).
>
> The current ACPI driver binding algorithm in acpi_bus_find_driver()
> looks at each driver, checking whether it can match either the _HID
> or the _CID of a device. Since we try the motherboard driver first,
> it matches the memory device _CID.
>
> I couldn't find a specific reference in the spec, but this seems
> intuitively sub-optimal. It seems like it'd be better to look
> first for a driver that can claim the _HID (which is more specific),
> and only fall back to checking the _CIDs if no _HID-specific driver
> is found.
>
I like it :)
-Kame
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