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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:28:31 -0700
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Harry Coin <harrycoin@qconline.com>
Subject:   Re: mss.c pcm fix to ' attach returned 6 ' load failure for v5.x acpi and up
Message-ID:  <42D82A7F.4050208@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <200507121027.14113.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20050711121036.02caa348@mail.qconline.com> <200507111626.25124.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <42D2F177.3070101@root.org> <200507121027.14113.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday 11 July 2005 06:23 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>>Also, can you upload your acpidump somewhere and provide a URL?  I'm
>>>curious if you have ACPI devices like thermal zones that don't have
>>>_HID's and only have _CIDs.  In fact, here's a patch to fix
>>>acpi_get_logicalid() in that case.  Give this a try first and let me know
>>>if it fixes it.
>>
>>I would rather you directly call acpi_isa_get_compatid() rather than
>>duplicating its logic here.  There's no guarantee that the first CID
>>will match the single ID passed in.
> 
> 
> There is no passed in ID.  For the common use of this function in almost all 
> ISA drivers, it just needs to return != 0 for PNP devices.

I really think the driver is broken and the API is fine for this.  I 
don't like the hack of returning a random CID for checks against the 
HID.  Drivers down the road may come to rely on this and then every BIOS 
that has a different order for CIDs becomes a potential breakage point.

Drivers should not rely on isa_get_logicalid() to determine a boolean 
"is PNP?"

-- 
Nate



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