On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:15:55 -0600 (MDT)
"Bjorn Helgaas" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, this is starting to make sense. It sounds like your memory
> device has _HID of PNP0C80 and _CID of PNP0C01 (or PNP0C02).
>
> The current ACPI driver binding algorithm in acpi_bus_find_driver()
> looks at each driver, checking whether it can match either the _HID
> or the _CID of a device. Since we try the motherboard driver first,
> it matches the memory device _CID.
>
> I couldn't find a specific reference in the spec, but this seems
> intuitively sub-optimal. It seems like it'd be better to look
> first for a driver that can claim the _HID (which is more specific),
> and only fall back to checking the _CIDs if no _HID-specific driver
> is found.
>
I like it :)
-Kame
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