From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: ykzhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Crane Cai <crane.cai@amd.com>,
"lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: add driver for SMBus Control Method Interface
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:05:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090716010502.GA955@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247705174.4113.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:46:14AM +0800, ykzhao wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 22:00 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > It's being accessed via ACPI methods, so the vendors have the
> > opportunity to implement proper locking.
> If the vendors can implement the proper locking, there will be no
> conflict.
I assume that the spec requires it.
> Another issue is that this driver had better be put in the directory of
> driver/platform/x86/.
I don't see anything x86-specific about it.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-16 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-15 6:02 [PATCH] ACPI: add driver for SMBus Control Method Interface Crane Cai
2009-07-15 9:43 ` ykzhao
2009-07-15 14:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-16 0:46 ` ykzhao
2009-07-16 1:05 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-07-16 1:23 ` Cai, Crane
2009-07-27 3:05 ` Cai, Crane
2009-07-27 12:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-27 23:45 ` Cai, Crane
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