linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 001/001] leds: alix-leds2 fixed for Award BIOS

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Message-ID: <17be05570905140208n5fd695aayfad221808f70ac21@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 May 2009 11:08:45 +0200
From:	Tobias Müller <Tobias_Mueller@...m.info>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Constantin Baranov <const@...as.ru>,
	Tobias Müller <Tobias_Mueller@...m.info>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] leds: alix-leds2 fixed for Award BIOS

2009/5/14 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>:
> Will this cause problems on boards which are _not_ running that BIOS?
No. These initialisations is already done there by BIOS, but setting
the registers twice doesn't matter. It's just configurating these pins
as an output.

> IOW, is this change backward-compatible?
Yes.
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