From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett 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 Message-ID: <20081229143508.GD31266@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1230560872.2328.4.camel@rhapsody> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:45659 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750800AbYL2OfL (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:35:11 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1230560872.2328.4.camel@rhapsody> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: The Holy ettlz Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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