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From: The Holy ettlz <theholyettlz@googlemail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1c00-0x1c1f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI"
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:42:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1230561737.2328.7.camel@rhapsody> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081229143508.GD31266@srcf.ucam.org>

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On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 14:35 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 02:27:52PM +0000, The Holy ettlz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I see the following in dmesg. I don't know how report-worthy it is, but
> > anyway:
> > 
> > ACPI: I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1c00-0x1c1f] conflicts with ACPI
> > region SMBI 
> > [0x1c00-0x1c0f]
> > ACPI: Device needs an ACPI driver
> 
> Your ACPI tables use the smbus controller themselves, so using a native 
> Linux driver could potentially result in race conditions and bizarre 
> failures. If you're not trying to use your smbus controller directly 
> then it's not really an issue.

Well, i2c-i801 is loaded:

i915                   67080  2 
drm                   201328  3 i915
i2c_i801               17820  0 
i2c_core               29216  2 drm,i2c_i801

Should I be worried?

James

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-29 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-29 14:27 "I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1c00-0x1c1f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI" The Holy ettlz
2008-12-29 14:35 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-29 14:42   ` The Holy ettlz [this message]
2008-12-29 14:45     ` Matthew Garrett

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