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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/12] hdaps: Correct readout and remove nonsensical attributes
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...)

Shem
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