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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:55:43 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lpc_ich: Fix a 3.5 kernel regression for iTCO_wdt
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 09:55:12PM +0200, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:

> Any idea why the acpi_check_resource_conflict() check gives a conflict?

Because the resource range is declared in ACPI and we assume that that 
means the firmware wants to scribble on it. We'd need the output of 
acpidump to work out whether that's safe or not.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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