Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:30:16 +0800 | From | Crane Cai <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i2c-scmi: Quirk to work on IBM machines with broken BIOSes |
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Hi Darrick,
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 04:11:49PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On some old IBM workstations and desktop computers, the BIOS presents in the > DSDT an SMBus object that is missing the HID identifier that the i2c-scmi > driver looks for. It also omits the leading "_" in the method names (it should > be _SBR, not SBR_). Modify the ACPI device scan code to insert the missing HID > if it finds an IBM system with such an object, and modify the i2c-scmi driver > to handle the odd method names. I have a suggestion: You can need not to add quirk in acpi part, instead you can add your ACPI device HID in i2c-scmi with your specificied methods set.
-- Best Regards, - Crane
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