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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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