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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Aaron Sierra <asierra@xes-inc.com>,
	Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lpc_ich: Fix a 3.5 kernel regression for iTCO_wdt driver
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:55:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120822215543.GA1954@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120822195512.GI27604@spo001.leaseweb.com>

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 09:55:12PM +0200, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:

> Any idea why the acpi_check_resource_conflict() check gives a conflict?

Because the resource range is declared in ACPI and we assume that that 
means the firmware wants to scribble on it. We'd need the output of 
acpidump to work out whether that's safe or not.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-22 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-14 15:56 [PATCH] lpc_ich: Fix a 3.5 kernel regression for iTCO_wdt driver Feng Tang
2012-08-22 19:55 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2012-08-22 21:55   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-08-23  5:08     ` Feng Tang
2012-08-23 17:13       ` Samuel Ortiz
2012-08-23 15:28 ` Guenter Roeck

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