RE: [bug discuss] fjes driver call trace warning, "PNP0C02" used in fjes seems like a bug,

From: Izumi, Taku
Date: Thu Jun 09 2016 - 04:49:30 EST


Dear Gao,

> From a SW perspective it like an acpi driver that uses "PNP0C02"
> as driver ids to perform the driver match in the ACPI table.
>
> From my understanding this is wrong in principle because that identifier
> must be used to reserve motherboard resources (see par 4.1.2 of the PCI
> Firmware Specifications v3.2)
>
> Therefore such identifier it is used from
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/pnp/system.c
> to reserve such resources.
>
> Basically your driver is breaking any other device that
> needs to reserve motherboard resources through system.c
> driver.
>
> @David Miller, what is your opinion about this?
> I think this driver should be reverted...

I'm willing to revise my driver if it's something wrong.
I can't reproduce this problem. Could you please show me how to reproduce problem ?

Sincerely,
Taku Izumi