Re: CONFIG_IBM_BAY

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-03-15T19:33:21Z

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:55:06 -0300
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
>
> > Please look at the patch I just sent. It allows ibm-acpi to load if
> > ACPI_BAY is loaded. It will, of course, cause ACPI_BAY to refuse to load if
> > ibm-acpi is already loaded, but that's probably fine as ACPI_BAY has just a
> > single function.
>
> The patch you sent seems fine - however, the bay driver will need a patch
> to correctly refuse to load when ibm_acpi is loaded and handling the bay.
> I'm testing this out now - will check it with your patch.

Will it? On 2.6.20 (I backported it) it bangs out with an error and refuses
to load just fine... The only reason that's not quite acceptable in
ibm-acpi is because ibm-acpi can do a lot more than just handle bay
devices.

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Henrique Holschuh