From: Crane Cai <crane.cai@amd.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c-scmi: Quirk to work on IBM machines with broken BIOSes
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:30:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091021023016.GC32413@crane-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091020231149.GM26149@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com>
Hi Darrick,
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 04:11:49PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On some old IBM workstations and desktop computers, the BIOS presents in the
> DSDT an SMBus object that is missing the HID identifier that the i2c-scmi
> driver looks for. It also omits the leading "_" in the method names (it should
> be _SBR, not SBR_). Modify the ACPI device scan code to insert the missing HID
> if it finds an IBM system with such an object, and modify the i2c-scmi driver
> to handle the odd method names.
I have a suggestion:
You can need not to add quirk in acpi part, instead you can add your ACPI device
HID in i2c-scmi with your specificied methods set.
--
Best Regards,
- Crane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-21 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-20 23:11 [PATCH] i2c-scmi: Quirk to work on IBM machines with broken BIOSes Darrick J. Wong
2009-10-21 2:30 ` Crane Cai [this message]
2009-10-21 14:57 ` Bjorn Helgaas
[not found] ` <200910210857.13978.bjorn.helgaas-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-21 17:37 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-10-22 7:17 ` Crane Cai
2009-10-22 17:43 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-10-22 18:37 ` Jean Delvare
2009-10-23 4:44 ` Crane Cai
2009-10-23 17:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] i2c-scmi: support IBM SMBus CMI devices Darrick J. Wong
[not found] ` <20091023170306.GP26149-bjhdApgbSaxhsM67afOH+sxtgHpCUUYS@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-25 9:39 ` Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20091025103932.31ce9a6d-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-26 2:54 ` Crane Cai
2009-10-23 17:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi: " Darrick J. Wong
2009-10-25 11:53 ` Jean Delvare
2009-10-26 20:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-10-26 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Darrick J. Wong
2009-10-27 17:03 ` Jean Delvare
2009-10-27 17:30 ` Darrick J. Wong
[not found] ` <20091027173001.GT26149-bjhdApgbSaxhsM67afOH+sxtgHpCUUYS@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-27 17:36 ` Jean Delvare
2009-12-04 17:06 ` Darrick J. Wong
[not found] ` <20091204170621.GA10356-bjhdApgbSaxhsM67afOH+sxtgHpCUUYS@public.gmane.org>
2009-12-04 17:36 ` Bjorn Helgaas
[not found] ` <200912041036.36686.bjorn.helgaas-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>
2009-12-04 18:07 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-12-04 18:11 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 1/2] ACPI: Quirk to make SMBus objects work on IBM machines with broken BIOSes Darrick J. Wong
2009-12-17 14:02 ` Jean Delvare
2010-01-05 12:30 ` Jean Delvare
2009-12-04 18:13 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 2/2] i2c-scmi: support IBM SMBus CMI devices Darrick J. Wong
2009-10-26 21:00 ` [PATCH " Darrick J. Wong
2009-10-27 17:24 ` Jean Delvare
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