Re: [PATCH 001/001] leds: alix-leds2 fixed for Award BIOS

[Constantin Baranov]

Do these boards support DMI? In that case, I suggest to write another
function, say alix_award_present(). It shall first check DMI and then
initialize GPIOs.

On Thu, 14 May 2009 11:08:45 +0200 Tobias MÃller <Tobias_Mueller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/5/14 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Will this cause problems on boards which are _not_ running that BIOS?
> No. These initialisations is already done there by BIOS, but setting
> the registers twice doesn't matter. It's just configurating these pins
> as an output.
> 
> > IOW, is this change backward-compatible?
> Yes.
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