Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Mon Jan 24 2005 - 14:05:48 EST


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:41:11 +0100
Jurriaan <thunder7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:43:36PM +0300
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:54:49 +0100
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > It seems noone who reviewed the SuperIO patches noticed that there are
> > > now two modules "scx200" in the kernel...
> >
> > They are almost mutually exlusive(SuperIO contains more advanced),
> > so I do not see any problem here.
> > Only one of them can be loaded in a time.
> >
> > So what does exactly bother you?
> >
> lsmod in bugreports giving unspecific results, for example.

If you load scx200 from superio subsystem, then obviously you can not
use old i2c/acb modules which require old scx200.
And vice versa.

One needs to load exactly what he wants.

> Kind regards,
> Jurriaan
> --
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Evgeniy Polyakov

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