Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 and Asus L3C : problematic change found, can be reverted. Real fix still missing

Dominik Brodowski
2004-08-29T13:32:41Z

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:05:45AM +0200, Eric Valette wrote:
> Li, Shaohua wrote:
> >Eric,
> >The patch for bug 3049 has been in 2.6.8.1 and should fix the IO port
> >problem. If the Asus quirk is just because of IO port problem, I'd like
> >to remove it.
It's not because of the IO port problem -- actually, this "IO" problem is a
new appearance, while the Asus quirk works perfectly for many people.

> > Note PNP driver also reserves the IO port for the SMBus
> >and lets SMBus driver to use it. ACPI motherboard driver behaves the
> >same as PNP driver.
>
> Unfortunately, as I understand it, the fix is done to "unhide" the SMBus
> that otherwyse is not seen but it has unexpected side effect of messing
> ioports allocation/reservation. I guess lspci with and without the fix
> could help to understand the problem.

Indeed. lspci without the fix doesn't show the device, lspci with the fix
shows the device.

Dominik