Re: [patch][resend] provide rtc_cmos platform device, take 2

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 10:12:42 pm Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > As far as I'm concerned, "pnpacpi=off" should only be used to work
> > around defects, so I'd like to fix the defect you're seeing with
> > parport_pc.  Is there a bug report for it?
> Certainly, and you've seen it many
> times. :)
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7491
> Its that the module parameters are overriden
> by PNP and are ignored, so you can't do
> "dma=none" etc.
> Your patch is not for that, AFAICS.
> Or let me know if it is.

Oh, yeah, that one :-)  No, my patch does nothing for that.

I can't remember why it's so hard to fix that bug.  Maybe now that
we fixed the *other* reason for using "pnpacpi=off", I can take
another look at it and make some progress.  It doesn't *sound* like
it should be hard to fix.

Bjorn

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