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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: The Holy ettlz <theholyettlz@googlemail.com>
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 14:35:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081229143508.GD31266@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1230560872.2328.4.camel@rhapsody>

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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-29 14:35 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 [this message]
2008-12-29 14:42   ` The Holy ettlz
2008-12-29 14:45     ` Matthew Garrett

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