Re: [PATCH 0/5] Detect hwmon and i2c bus drivers interfering with ACPI Operation Region resources

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Saturday 27 October 2007 9:09:47 am Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:06:22AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > But we really *should* reserve things used by opregions, shouldn't
> > we?  After all, the whole point of resource reservation is to prevent
> > conflicts.
>
> Only if you're happy to lose functionality like IDE, sadly.

That's a simplistic answer to a complex problem.  I don't think
we should just ignore the whole problem, cross our fingers, and
hope that firmware stays out of our way.

Bjorn
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