[acpi-jp 2706] Re: Odd ACPI behavior

[Bruce Evans]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > ACPI attaches the bus twice.  See sys/dev/acpica/acpi.c:
> >
> > Thanks. That explains why I get the message twice, but why do I get it
> > at all when the device is disabled in the device.hints file?
>
> Dunno.  That's probably an sio(4) problem.  It does that on my laptop
> also.

It would be a layering violation for sio(4) to even look at the disabled
flag.  However, it has to look at this flag for consoles, since new-bus
is is not initialized when consoles are attached.

Bruce