Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Hi Matthew,

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:57:09 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> How about this? It's informational only, but ought to result in 
> complaints whenever ACPI tries to touch something that other hardware 
> has reserved. We can't fail these accesses, but in theory we could 
> consider some sort of locking layer that made it possible to interact 
> anyway. I haven't even checked if this builds, but I think the concept 
> is reasonable.

I like the patch, after adding some casts to the printf args it
compiles fine. However you print warnings each time a resource has been
reserved... without checking if it hasn't been reserved by ACPI itself!
My machine looks like this:

1000-107f : 0000:00:1f.0
  1000-1003 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
  1004-1005 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
  1008-100b : ACPI PM_TMR
  1010-1015 : ACPI CPU throttle
  1020-1020 : ACPI PM2_CNT_BLK
  1028-102b : ACPI GPE0_BLK
  102c-102f : ACPI GPE1_BLK

Given that these ports were reserved by ACPI it is perfectly legitimate
that ACPI accesses it, so we must not print a warning in this case. We
need to exclude from the test the regions those "name" starts with
"ACPI", but I'm not sure how we can do that.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare