From: Constantin Baranov <const@mimas.ru>
To: Tobias_Mueller@twam.info
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] leds: alix-leds2 fixed for Award BIOS
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 01:09:47 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090515010947.4016ba66.const@mimas.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17be05570905140208n5fd695aayfad221808f70ac21@mail.gmail.com>
Do these boards support DMI? In that case, I suggest to write another
function, say alix_award_present(). It shall first check DMI and then
initialize GPIOs.
On Thu, 14 May 2009 11:08:45 +0200 Tobias Müller <Tobias_Mueller@twam.info> wrote:
> 2009/5/14 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
> > Will this cause problems on boards which are _not_ running that BIOS?
> No. These initialisations is already done there by BIOS, but setting
> the registers twice doesn't matter. It's just configurating these pins
> as an output.
>
> > IOW, is this change backward-compatible?
> Yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-14 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-13 14:10 [PATCH 001/001] leds: alix-leds2 fixed for Award BIOS Tobias Müller
2009-05-13 22:14 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-14 9:08 ` Tobias Müller
2009-05-14 20:09 ` Constantin Baranov [this message]
2009-05-14 20:23 ` Tobias Müller
2009-05-14 21:32 ` Constantin Baranov
2009-05-16 9:52 ` Tobias Müller
2009-05-16 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 001/001] " Tobias Müller
2009-05-16 15:21 ` Constantin Baranov
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