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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: "'Ducrot Bruno'" <poup@poupinou.org>,
	Felix Seeger <seeger@sitewaerts.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:47:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25526.1037828842@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EDC461A30AC4D511ADE10002A5072CAD04C7A52A@orsmsx119.jf.intel.com>


andrew.grover@intel.com said:
>  It would be great if someone could take a look at the sonypi driver
> and see what can be done to integrate it better with ACPI. ACPI
> includes an EC driver, so at the minimum, sonypi should use that
> instead of poking the EC itself, perhaps. 

Surely a proper driver should always be preferred over binary-only bytecode?

The sonypi driver looks like it properly requests the regions it uses; they
should be marked busy. Why is the ACPI code touching them?

--
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-20 19:08 Linux 2.4.20 ACPI Grover, Andrew
2002-11-20 21:47 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-11-20 22:24   ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 21:59     ` David Woodhouse
2002-11-20 22:34       ` Alan Cox
2002-11-21 13:11       ` Ducrot Bruno
     [not found] <r1_Pine.LNX.4.44.0211251848000.8602-100000@tigger.rogueind.com>
2002-11-27 19:09 ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-26 11:09 Margit Schubert-While
2002-11-21  1:24 Grover, Andrew
2002-11-21  1:45 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-20 11:02 Margit Schubert-While
2002-11-20 20:00 ` Willy Tarreau
2002-11-19 12:53 Margit Schubert-While
2002-11-19 13:07 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-19 14:27   ` Ducrot Bruno
2002-11-19 16:45     ` Adrian Bunk
2002-11-23 19:57       ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-25 12:15         ` Dave Jones
2002-11-25 12:37           ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-11-25 16:07           ` David Woodhouse
2002-11-25 16:33             ` John Jasen
2002-11-25 18:12             ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-25 21:34               ` David Woodhouse
2002-11-25 22:26                 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-25 23:53                 ` Tom Diehl
2002-11-19 17:29     ` Dave Jones
2002-11-19 18:30     ` Dave Jones
2002-11-20  6:37       ` Ducrot Bruno
2002-11-20 10:29         ` Felix Seeger
2002-11-20 15:11           ` Ducrot Bruno

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