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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Intel ICH - sound/pci/intel8x0.c
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:49:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094417386.1911.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e47339104090514244873fd05@mail.gmail.com>

On Sul, 2004-09-05 at 22:24, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I'd don't know enough about the LPC bridge chip to know what the
> correct answer is for this. Right now I tend to think that the PCI
> driver should own the bridge chip. If not the PCI driver then there
> should be an explicit bridge driver. I don' think it is correct that a
> joystick driver is attaching to a bridge chip given the simple fact

Nobody else currently needs to attach to it so why make life needlessly
complicated.

> that all legacy IO - joystick, PS/2, parallel, serial, etc is located
> off from that same bridge chip.
> 
> Matthieu's comments about using PNP for this seem to make sense. Are
> we missing implementation of an ACPI feature for controlling these
> ports?

See previous discussion. We have isapnp, biospnp but not great acpi pnp.
None of them help because you need to deal with hotplug.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-05 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-05 18:48 Intel ICH - sound/pci/intel8x0.c Matthieu Castet
2004-09-05 21:24 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-05 20:49   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-06  2:09     ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-09-06  4:07       ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-06  2:13     ` Jon Smirl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-06 15:48 Matthieu Castet
2004-09-06  8:40 Matthieu Castet
2004-09-06  8:31 Matthieu Castet
2004-09-06 11:27 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-06 14:11   ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-05  2:43 Jon Smirl
2004-09-05 11:55 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-05 15:26   ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-06 10:57 ` Takashi Iwai

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