reassign 568126 release-notes
thanks
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:30:08PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le lundi 2 août 2010 00:27:10, vous avez écrit :
> > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:58:36AM -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> > > Package: lm-sensors
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > >
> > > This looks like a consequence of a recent change in kernel policy
> > > regarding resource conflicts. According to the 'kernel-parameters.txt'
> > > file in the kernel documentation, the default value of the parameter
> > > "acpi_enforce_resources" has changed:
> > >
> > > $ grep -A 15 acpi_enforce_resources Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > >
> > > acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
> > >
> > > { strict | lax | no }
> > > Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
> > > and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
> > > only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
> > > used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
> > > can interfere with legacy drivers.
> > > strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
> > > is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
> > > resources will fail to bind to device using them.
> > > lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
> > > legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
> > > will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
> > > no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
> > > no further checks are performed.
> > >
> > > I recently resolved a very similar issue myself by adding
> > > "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" to my kernel boot line in GRUB.
> >
> > Didier, does this fix the issue for you?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Moritz
>
> Hi Moritz,
>
> yes it does. But if this option is to stay, it really should get either i)
> set
> automagically by <insert smart package name here> ii) documented visibly in
> release notes maybe ?
>
> Thanks for your following-up on that bug.
We won't diverge from the kernel default settings, so I'm reassigning to
release-notes. Please provide a proposed text to ease the work of the
people preparing the release notes.
Cheers,
Moritz
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