Re: [PATCH 001/001] leds: alix-leds2 fixed for Award BIOS

From: Tobias MÃller
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 05:08:57 EST


2009/5/14 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Will this cause problems on boards which are _not_ running that BIOS?
No. These initialisations is already done there by BIOS, but setting
the registers twice doesn't matter. It's just configurating these pins
as an output.

> IOW, is this change backward-compatible?
Yes.
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