From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Detect hwmon and i2c bus drivers interfering with ACPI Operation Region resources Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:50:33 -0600 Message-ID: <200710282050.34166.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> References: <1193236319.4590.225.camel@queen.suse.de> <200710250906.23003.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20071027150947.GA1568@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from atlrel8.hp.com ([156.153.255.206]:48223 "EHLO atlrel8.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848AbXJ2Cww (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:52:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20071027150947.GA1568@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: trenn@suse.de, linux-acpi , linux-kernel , Len Brown , Andrew Morton , Jean Delvare On Saturday 27 October 2007 9:09:47 am Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:06:22AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > But we really *should* reserve things used by opregions, shouldn't > > we? After all, the whole point of resource reservation is to prevent > > conflicts. > > Only if you're happy to lose functionality like IDE, sadly. That's a simplistic answer to a complex problem. I don't think we should just ignore the whole problem, cross our fingers, and hope that firmware stays out of our way. Bjorn