From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: acpi resource reservation
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:46:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080924214645.GA2593@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20080924T193444-211@post.gmane.org>
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:36:03PM +0000, matthieu castet wrote:
> I believe by doing that acpi will avoid that other drivers try to use the same r
> esource. And it will avoid the acpi_check_region hack that need to be added in e
> ach driver instead of relying with the standard
> request_region/request_mem_region mecanism.
It was attempted, but you hit a huge number of cases where ACPI has
reserved resources that are required by other drivers. We could
whitelist them, but it doesn't seem to buy a great deal.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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2008-09-24 19:36 acpi resource reservation matthieu castet
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