Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] PNPACPI: fix types when decoding ACPI resources [resend]

[matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>]

Hi,

Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 23:16 +0200, matthieu castet wrote:
> 
>>There are drivers/acpi/motherboard.c that done some stuff already handle 
>>by pnp/system.c.
> 
> Yes, it should be disabled if pnpacpi is enabled. 
But even if pnpacpi is disabled, pnp/system.c sould work with pnpbios.
> The only concern is
> motherboard.c also request some ACPI resources, which might not declaim
> in ACPI motherboard device, but it's completely BIOS dependent. We might
> could try remove it at -mm tree to see if it breaks any system later.
> 
> 
Ok,
may be we should split in 2 modules : the one that request some ACPI 
resources and the other that use PNP resource.
>>PS : I saw in acpi ols paper that you plan once all dupe acpi drivers 
>>will be removed to register again the pnp device in acpi layer. Do you 
>>plan to add more check and for example add only device that have a CRS 
>>in pnp layer ?
> 
> For detecting PNP device? it's worthy trying.
> 

I will send a patch for that.

Matthieu