Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:53:39 +0300 | From | "Shem Multinymous" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/12] hdaps: Correct readout and remove nonsensical attributes |
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On 8/8/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> wrote: > > We may end up needing to lock away other subsystems (ACPI?) that > > touch the same ports. Apparently not an issue right now, but could > > change with new firmware. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/7/147) > > When (if) it becomes necessary to lock away other subsystems, the > wrapper can be easily reintroduced.
It's an exported function, and we already have an out-of-tree module (awaiting future submission once the dust clears about this series) which relies on it.
See the LKML discussion, "Subject: tp_smapi conflict with IDE, hdaps", and especially Alan Cox's sample code for this. (That got me embarrassed into writing the rest of thinkpad_ec...)
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