Re: [PATCH] PNPACPI: Register disabled resources

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Witold Szczeponik wrote:
> When parsing PnP resources, it may happen that some of these
> are disabled.  The current solution is to skip these resources
> completely - with the unfortunate side effect that they are not
> registered despite the fact that they exist, after all.  The
> downside of his is that these resources cannot be manipulated
> programatically.  The kernel's APM implementation does not suffer
> from this problem.
> 
> This patch fixes a problem with (at least) some vintage IBM
> ThinkPad 600E (and most likely also on the 600, 600X, and 770X
> which have a very similar layout) where some of its PnP devices
> support options where either an IRQ or DMA is disabled.  The
> manipulation of these resources is important because the 600E
> has very special requirements.
> 
> The patch applies the idea to register disabled resources to
> all types of resources, not just to IRQs and DMAs.

Maybe you could post to the linux-thinkpad ML a follow up, mentioning this
patch and how these thinkpad users should use it plus whatever userspace to
improve the suport for their boxes?

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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