On 8/8/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda <[email protected]> wrote:
> We may end up needing to lock away other subsystems (ACPI?) that > touch the same ports. Apparently not an issue right now, but could > change with new firmware. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/7/147) When (if) it becomes necessary to lock away other subsystems, the wrapper can be easily reintroduced.
It's an exported function, and we already have an out-of-tree module (awaiting future submission once the dust clears about this series) which relies on it. See the LKML discussion, "Subject: tp_smapi conflict with IDE, hdaps", and especially Alan Cox's sample code for this. (That got me embarrassed into writing the rest of thinkpad_ec...) Shem - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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