Thomas Renninger wrote: >>>> Any chances of changing things >>>> so that we inspect/snoop all tasks sent to the device, and filter them >>>> out, or react to them accordingly? >>> No, we can't unless we snoop ACPI method execution and detect accesses >>> to IO ports or iomem regions. It's not going through any driver. This >>> is a gross mess. >> I don't mean fixing the stuff clowns like Toshiba did. The correct fix for >> that is to blacklist the hell out of that crap and patch their DSDT into >> something remotely sane. >> >> I do mean snooping the ACPI methods that *return* a taskset to send to the >> driver, and we send that taskset ourselves in libata and libpata(?). > > I haven't read the whole thread in every detail, but this sounds like a > very intrusive, overdosed workaround. > > Are the DSDT/SSDTs already lying around somewhere (collecting them in a > bug assigned to ACPI component should be a good idea)? > Could someone give me a pointer where this happens (best in code and > DSDT).
The toshiba problem is already taken care of. It's the issue that we talked over beer. Let me look up the bug number... It's 7780. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7780 This was worked around by blacklisting the systems using dmi. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
