Re: [PATCH] ACPI: add "auto" to acpi_enforce_resources

Jean Delvare
2009-04-03T09:40:41Z

On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:59:11 -0400 (EDT), Len Brown wrote:
> From 7e90560c50f754d65884e251e94c1efa2a4b5784 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:01:27 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: acpi_enforce_resource=strict by default
> X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore
>
> Enforce strict resource checking - disallowing access by native
> drivers to IO ports and memory regions claimed by ACPI firmware.
>
> The patch is mainly aimed to block native hwmon drivers from touching
> monitoring chips that ACPI thinks it own.
>
> If this causes a regression, boot with "acpi_enforce_resources=lax"
> which was the previous default.
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12376
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12541
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> ---
>
> as applied.

Thanks Len! I'll look into pushing Luca's atk0110 driver upstream later
today (but it's a busy day at work...)

--
Jean Delvare