Re: [PATCH 1/2 V3] applesmc: Use PnP rather than hardcodingresources and devices

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Sat Dec 18 2010 - 09:41:13 EST


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:07:14AM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:23:21PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 05:24:20PM -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > The AppleSMC device is described in ACPI, including a list of its resources.
> > > We should use those rather than hardcoding the ports. A side-effect is that
> > > we can then remove the DMI matching, since there's a unique identifier to
> > > indicate that the machine has one of these devices.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > You added a whitespace error, and kfree() is safe and doesn't need a check.
> > I fixed those, so no need to resubmit. If Henrik gives his Ack we are ready to go.
>
> Thanks, I will give it some testing before doing so. Matthew, did you
> test this under EFI boot? Also, NOTIFICATION_KEY does not seem to be
> used anywhere.

I tested under EFI and BIOS. NOTIFICATION_KEY is there for adding
interrupt support - I got that hooked up but it seems that the latest
Air is lacking the sudden motion sensor (probably because it's an
SSD-only model) so wasn't able to test it. I'll play some more and add a
further patch for that.

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