From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992438AbXCBNjk (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:39:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992437AbXCBNjk (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:39:40 -0500 Received: from smtp-105-friday.noc.nerim.net ([62.4.17.105]:2065 "EHLO mallaury.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992434AbXCBNjj (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:39:39 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:37:20 +0100 From: Jean Delvare To: Pavel Machek Cc: Dave Jones , Chuck Ebbert , Rudolf Marek , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI? Message-Id: <20070302143720.cfd8afeb.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20070302113158.GC2156@elf.ucw.cz> References: <45D5EA88.7090300@redhat.com> <45D6DDCE.5050803@assembler.cz> <45D7461A.2040808@redhat.com> <20070218183805.5a4fd813.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070228213803.GA4877@ucw.cz> <20070301152655.f232db64.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070301174806.GA4979@redhat.com> <20070302122736.f14a7a22.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070302113158.GC2156@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.10 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:31:58 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > My point (which you didn't quote) was that there is no correlation > > between the SMBus being hidden and ACPI accessing the hardware > > monitoring chip, contrary to what Pavel was suggesting. > > It may not be correlated with ACPI, but BIOS authors clearly want to > keep you away from their SMBus controllers.... drivers/pci/quirks.c is full of things we do against the BIOS authors intent. You don't plan to remove them all, do you? (And as a side note, this is really the board's owner SMBus controller. The hardware doesn't belong to the BIOS author.) -- Jean Delvare