Re: Look Ma, da kernel is b0rken

[Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 06:44:05PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 05:52:18PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > Hmm, anyone deeply familiar with ISA PnP ID magic? :)
> 
> Even if this is violating the ACPI spec, any fix for this needs to be
> tested on the hardware (and I can very well imagine that the hardware
> might be violating the spec too, nothing new here).
> 
> So even if you had a fix, you need to run it on the hardware to verify
> that it actually works.

And that demand actually applies to both the '@' change (questionable)
and the much less disputed (obviously correct) wrong conditional fixup,
since both introduce a notable change (either large, or possibly
improper) in behaviour.

> So the actual practical question turns into: do you have such hardware
> to verify your or anyone else's fix on?

Not the ALS100 (only ALS4000 here).
I possibly have some other ISA hardware, but probably none which contains
'@' data in their PnP id struct.
The driver for the well-known case of ISDN PnP cards
does not seem to contain it.
However ISTR that CMI8330 was quite widespread (did I have one? Do I??).
For identification, see http://www.yjfy.com/C/C-Media/soundchipset/CMI8330A.htm

I'm afraid I should get an old system back up and running,
exactly for such validation work cases (and perhaps so should a select few
other developers, too).

BTW, "my" fix? I thought that everybody had come to the conclusion by now
that I merely pointed out (in no uncertain terms to boot)
that something was broken :)

Andreas Mohr