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Message-ID: <20070413200746.GD28264@elf.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:07:46 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, Rudolf Marek <r.marek@...embler.cz>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, lm-sensors@...sensors.org Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI? Hi! > > ... The primary issue is the concurrent access > > to resources, which cause lots of trouble which are hard to investigate. > > If ACPI reserves the ports, then the SMBus or hardware monitoring > > drivers (or any other conflicting driver) will cleanly fail to load, > > which would be a move in the right direction. ... > > > > So, can ACPI actually reserve the ports it accesses? > > Sorry to join this discussion so late. > > ACPI tells us the resources used by devices. Today, we don't > reserve Problem seems to be that ACPI does _not_ tell us which ports it accesses from AML code. But we already found a lock we can take; AFAICT we know how to solve this problem. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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