Subject: Re: ACPI attachments and pcppi(4) split-up
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Jared D.McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/22/2005 20:48:30
On 22-Mar-05, at 6:52 PM, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> The other pitfall is if you configure the pcppi device to be attached 
> on
> acpi and the attimer device to be attached on isa, you will lose the
> ability to set the picth, because the patch uses config_defer() in
> pcppi_attach() to find an attimer device, which will only work if the
> said device is a "brother" of the pcppi device or if it was attached
> already.  I don't see this as a critical issue.

I don't see this being a big deal -- be sure to make a note in UPDATING 
about this.

> Comments?  I plan on committing this on Friday evening or on Saturday
> morning.  With some more patching of all the kernel configs that 
> include
> pcppi(4) support, of course.

Looks good to me. Thanks!

Cheers,
Jared