Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 16:47:22 EST


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?

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dwmw2

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