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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Samuel Thibault <Samuel.Thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: EuroBraille/Iris power off
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:10:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54870.1284390647@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:07:19 +0200." <20100913100719.GA3903@pema>

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On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:07:19 +0200, Shérab said:

> +static int iris_init(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned char status = inb(IRIS_GIO_INPUT);
> +	if (status == IRIS_GIO_NODEV) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "This machine does not seem to be an Iris. Power_off handler not installed.\n");
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +	}

Is it actually safe to assume that this will do the right thing on a machine that
is a non-Iris that has something *else* at that I/O  address?  Any further sanity
checking we can do?  (For that matter, are there machines that will get indigestion
at this sort of unexpected inb() access?)

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-25  9:49 [PATCH] x86: EuroBraille/Iris power off Shérab
2010-08-25 16:12 ` Andreas Mohr
2010-08-25 21:12   ` Sebastien Hinderer
2010-08-25 21:19     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-25 22:50       ` Samuel Thibault
2010-08-26  0:06         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-26  0:19           ` Samuel Thibault
2010-08-26  6:45           ` Sebastien Hinderer
2010-08-26  6:55             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-26  7:09               ` Andreas Mohr
2010-08-26  9:29               ` Sebastien Hinderer
2010-08-26 18:11 ` Len Brown
2010-08-26 21:08   ` Shérab
2010-08-26 21:16     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-27 17:35       ` Shérab
2010-08-27 18:49         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-27 22:27       ` Shérab
2010-08-29 20:59       ` Shérab
2010-09-13 10:07         ` Shérab
2010-09-13 15:10           ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2010-09-13 15:22             ` Samuel Thibault
2010-09-13 16:06               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-13 16:12                 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-09-14  1:45               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-09-14  5:16                 ` Shérab
2010-09-20  8:22                 ` Shérab
2010-09-26 17:54                   ` Shérab
2010-10-10 16:22                     ` Shérab
2010-11-13 19:22                       ` Shérab
2010-09-13 15:25             ` Shérab
2010-09-13 15:48               ` H. Peter Anvin

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