Re: [BK PATCH] I2C update for 2.6.8-rc1

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:58:42PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 17:05 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > <orange:fobie.net>:
> >   o I2C: patch quirks.c - SMBus hidden on hp laptop
> 
>    This particular patch, along w/ the new 20040715 ACPI drop has made
> my nc6000 laptop unusable.  The problem is we're exposing a device that
> firmware considers hidden.  The new motherboard driver in ACPI goes out
> and tries to claim resources to prevent them from being stepped on.  It
> rightfully considers the hidden SMBus device a motherboard resource.
> The PCI code then stumbles onto this device, sees that the BAR it's
> using is unavailable and moves it somewhere else in the address space.
> At this point, I lose two for the three thermal zones on the laptop
> because the AML that deals with them assumes they haven't moved.
> 
>    I'm not sure what the point on un-hiding this devices it.  ACPI sets
> up an OpRegion to access this device and should have exclusive access to
> that region.  Letting a sensor driver poke at it may be fun, but I'd
> rather not fry my laptop.  Can we drop the un-hiding of the SMBus for
> this laptop (probably the nc8000 too), or is there some way to make the
> ACPI motherboard driver and this quirk live together?  Thanks,

See the bugzilla.kernel.org bug #3191 for more information.

If someone can come up with a patch that works for everyone, I'll be
glad to apply it.

thanks,

greg k-h