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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  ACPI:  Ignore AE_NOT_FOUND error of EC _REG method and continue to initialize EC
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:59:26 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:25:50AM +0800, Zhao Yakui wrote:
> Subject:ACPI: Ignore AE_NOT_FOUND error of EC _REG method and continue to initialize EC 
> From: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
> 
> On some broken BIOS the ACPI object in EC _REG method can't be found in
> ACPI namespace, which causes that the AE_NOT_FOUND status code is returned by
> the EC _REG object. In such case the EC device can't be initialized correctly, 

Thanks. Queued for test. How urgent is this? Do we need to consider it 
for .27?

-Andi