2006-09-19 13:15:43

by Samuel Tardieu

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Subject: Re: [RFC-patch 0/3] SuperIO locks coordinator

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Cromie <[email protected]> writes:

Jim> The module does *not* guarantee anything, it offers no protection
Jim> against rogue (existing) modules which dont use the superio-locks
Jim> coordinator. (is anti-rogue protection even possible? Perhaps,
Jim> IFF modules reserve the 2 superio addresses - semi-rogue?)

I don't think we can prevent bad things from happening if someone
doesn't play the game and uses the device using IO ports directly on a
SMP.

Sam
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