From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
LM Sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:53:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100330215305.GA2220@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68676e01003301445v1b3ee070nfc0f0b53716c4740@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:45:46PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > Because the situation with the asus driver loaded isn't obviously any
> > worse than not having it loaded. The user is telling us that they're
> > happy with racy access to their hwmon hardware.
>
> "lax" option is typically used when the user wants to load the native
> driver; in this case we know that it's not safe to load asus driver.
It's not safe to load the native driver, full stop. Not loading the asus
driver doesn't alter that.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
LM Sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:53:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100330215305.GA2220@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68676e01003301445v1b3ee070nfc0f0b53716c4740@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:45:46PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > Because the situation with the asus driver loaded isn't obviously any
> > worse than not having it loaded. The user is telling us that they're
> > happy with racy access to their hwmon hardware.
>
> "lax" option is typically used when the user wants to load the native
> driver; in this case we know that it's not safe to load asus driver.
It's not safe to load the native driver, full stop. Not loading the asus
driver doesn't alter that.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-09 12:56 [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Jean Delvare
2010-03-09 20:20 ` Luca Tettamanti
2010-03-30 10:03 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Jean Delvare
2010-03-30 10:03 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Jean Delvare
2010-03-30 13:21 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 13:21 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 19:47 ` [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Jean Delvare
2010-03-30 19:47 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Jean Delvare
2010-03-30 19:48 ` [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 19:48 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 20:32 ` [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Jean Delvare
2010-03-30 20:32 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Jean Delvare
2010-03-30 21:10 ` [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 21:10 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 21:45 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Luca Tettamanti
2010-03-30 21:45 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Luca Tettamanti
2010-03-30 21:53 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-03-30 21:53 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if Matthew Garrett
2010-03-31 7:30 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Jean Delvare
2010-03-31 7:30 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Jean Delvare
2010-03-31 12:51 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Matthew Garrett
2010-03-31 12:51 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if Matthew Garrett
2010-03-31 13:25 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Jean Delvare
2010-03-31 13:25 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Jean Delvare
2010-03-31 13:27 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Matthew Garrett
2010-03-31 13:27 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if Matthew Garrett
2010-03-31 13:37 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Jean Delvare
2010-03-31 13:37 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Jean Delvare
2010-03-31 7:42 ` [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced Jean Delvare
2010-03-31 7:42 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI Jean Delvare
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