Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030286AbWISNPn (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:15:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030287AbWISNPn (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:15:43 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49042 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030286AbWISNPm (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:15:42 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: [RFC-patch 0/3] SuperIO locks coordinator Date: 19 Sep 2006 15:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87k6402e8a.fsf_-_@willow.rfc1149.net> References: <87fyf5jnkj.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> <1157815525.6877.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060909220256.d4486a4f.vsu@altlinux.ru> <4508FF2F.5020504@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zaphod.rfc1149.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:6f8:37a:2::2 Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 794 Lines: 14 >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Cromie 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 -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/