Re: [PATCH] ACPI: add driver for SMBus Control Method Interface

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Wed Jul 15 2009 - 21:05:15 EST


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:46:14AM +0800, ykzhao wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 22:00 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > It's being accessed via ACPI methods, so the vendors have the
> > opportunity to implement proper locking.
> If the vendors can implement the proper locking, there will be no
> conflict.

I assume that the spec requires it.

> Another issue is that this driver had better be put in the directory of
> driver/platform/x86/.

I don't see anything x86-specific about it.

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