Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:04:23 +0200 | From | Dominik Brodowski <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 and Asus L3C : problematic change found, can be reverted. Real fix still missing |
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:05:45AM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > Li, Shaohua wrote: > >Eric, > >The patch for bug 3049 has been in 2.6.8.1 and should fix the IO port > >problem. If the Asus quirk is just because of IO port problem, I'd like > >to remove it. It's not because of the IO port problem -- actually, this "IO" problem is a new appearance, while the Asus quirk works perfectly for many people.
> > Note PNP driver also reserves the IO port for the SMBus > >and lets SMBus driver to use it. ACPI motherboard driver behaves the > >same as PNP driver. > > Unfortunately, as I understand it, the fix is done to "unhide" the SMBus > that otherwyse is not seen but it has unexpected side effect of messing > ioports allocation/reservation. I guess lspci with and without the fix > could help to understand the problem.
Indeed. lspci without the fix doesn't show the device, lspci with the fix shows the device.
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