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authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2006-04-25 07:37:25 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-06-22 14:10:32 -0400
commitf9ba6c04ef1dcf16f7179b7883e9751baaac218e (patch)
tree0d66c8aab1ea1c0343744925e53f7e9111daaff0 /drivers
parent7aadb8f943f6f8fb48962099cfba05ad0518b0ac (diff)
[PATCH] I2C: i2c-piix4: Document the IBM problem more clearly
Properly document on which systems the i2c-piix4 SMBus driver will refuse to load. Hopefully this will make it clearer for users, which were often wondering why their destop or server systems were detected as laptops. Closes bug #6429. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c
index 05af7b0292f4..8f2f65b793b9 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static int __devinit piix4_setup(struct pci_dev *PIIX4_dev,
130 /* Don't access SMBus on IBM systems which get corrupted eeproms */ 130 /* Don't access SMBus on IBM systems which get corrupted eeproms */
131 if (dmi_check_system(piix4_dmi_table) && 131 if (dmi_check_system(piix4_dmi_table) &&
132 PIIX4_dev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL) { 132 PIIX4_dev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL) {
133 dev_err(&PIIX4_dev->dev, "IBM Laptop detected; this module " 133 dev_err(&PIIX4_dev->dev, "IBM system detected; this module "
134 "may corrupt your serial eeprom! Refusing to load " 134 "may corrupt your serial eeprom! Refusing to load "
135 "module!\n"); 135 "module!\n");
136 return -EPERM; 136 return -EPERM;