hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced
authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 17:58:37 +0000 (19:58 +0200)
committerJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 17:58:37 +0000 (19:58 +0200)
commit70dd6beac02f43a5099fcf5fddf68cfee0cbf479
tree53d70a87157eafdf62612922a137fcc365439688
parent31f46717997a83bdf6db0dd04810c0a329eb3148
hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced

When the user passes the kernel parameter acpi_enforce_resources=lax,
the ACPI resources are no longer protected, so a native driver can
make use of them. In that case, we do not want the asus_atk0110 to be
loaded. Unfortunately, this driver loads automatically due to its
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE, so the user ends up with two drivers loaded for
the same device - this is bad.

So I suggest that we prevent the asus_atk0110 driver from loading if
acpi_enforce_resources=lax.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
drivers/acpi/osl.c
drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c
include/linux/acpi.h