Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759872AbYAQWAn (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:00:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757347AbYAQWAN (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:00:13 -0500 Received: from tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.187]:44409 "EHLO tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756490AbYAQWAJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:00:09 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAPpdj0dFn+Sr/2dsb2JhbACuEQQ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:00:03 -0500 From: Mike Houston To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Jean Delvare , bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, "Shaohua Li" , "Mike Houston" , "Adrian Bunk" , "Elvis Pranskevichus" , "Mark M. Hoffman" , "Adam Belay" , "Zhao Yakui" , "Thomas Renninger" , lenb@kernel.org, Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug 9514] it87 probe failure in 2.6.24-rc -- what now? Message-Id: <20080117170003.7297ce39.mikeserv@bmts.com> In-Reply-To: <200801171339.00887.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> References: <200801171339.00887.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.6 (GTK+ 2.10.14; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 982 Lines: 26 On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:38:57 -0700 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Where are we with this problem? > (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9514) > The second option I see is to use my patch > (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14267&action=view) > to make it87 request only the ports it uses. > Whatever we do, it'd be nice to have a fix in 2.6.24, and I think my > patch is the least evil for now. >From my perspective it sure seems to be the least evil, because it only touches what needs to be touched for my situation. I of course can't say how it would affect others. I'm still using your patch (on 2.6.24-rc8 now) but I'll test whatever other solutions you folks may come up with. Mike Houston -- 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/