Re: acpi sysresource fix

[YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt+dfly@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:22:59PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:47:47PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> > This patch could affect other ACPI subsystems, since it changes the probe
> > order and how it handles the pre-allocated resources.
> 
> I'm currently holding to commit this patch; if I build the acpi.ko
> without ACPI_DEBUG defined, acpi_bus_alloc_gas() fails to allocate
> some of resources.  In my case, available Cx states are limited to 1
> because of this.  I'm going to investigate on this.

I tracked it to down to acpi_timer doing a resource allocation in
identify routine, which was grabbing the resource before sysresource
could do it.  I'll rework the patch and post it here later.

Cheers.