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  2. Aug 15, 2008
    • Alistair John Strachan's avatar
      abituguru3: prefer DMI probing to manual probing · 4ef664b5
      Alistair John Strachan authored
      Previously the driver was only using DMI to prevent smbus probing on
      non-Abit motherboards.  However, since the manual probing method is
      brittle and prone to failure on some Abit motherboards (esp.  the Abit
      IP35 Pro) it is better to use DMI to also read the board name and then
      decide whether or not to probe the bus.
      
      At the moment, we do not have a list of valid DMI name strings to use
      for existing and supported motherboards.  This patch only implements DMI
      probing for the IP35 Pro.  For motherboards that can not yet use DMI
      probing, a warning will be printed to the kernel log asking those users
      to email me their dmidecode output.
      
      The existing manual probing mechanism will be used if CONFIG_DMI is not
      enabled, if DMI probing fails (for DMI-unsupported motherboards), or if
      DMI probing fails and the "force" option is set (for DMI-supported
      motherboards).  Ideally in the longer term this manual probing method
      would be removed.
      
      This patch should be safe to apply as it does not change the probing
      behaviour for most of the supported motherboards, just the IP35 Pro,
      which already has regressions filed against it in 2.6.26.
      
      Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11212
      
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
      Acked-by: default avatarHans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
      Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4ef664b5
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