From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Jenkins Subject: Re: ACPI Exception... Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:09:18 +0000 Message-ID: <9b2b86520912010609k687dd30cre49a7dfea5c84a60@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091126193221.3ed8cbf0@tux.DEF.witbe.net> <9b2b86520911300451s63ddc589seb66f3dee48b0cbd@mail.gmail.com> <20091130140429.6a93104d@tux.DEF.witbe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=g/dNK7W6Zj1G+Exm0q7kwNsDtthHR9Uq3b7eqd+ZgA4=; b=fjpoueYv0CmeinEOpMP9ImRIY7410tBoByoUGSYzdx7xIBdYEwJ+0kCUVm1iOIC++M 1WQ+3jnZMXf+/EHFXiqsgemmOlr7GEpnNBkoc/PyRfxA0iej+a5Zuz+S8jTY4xD0dyMk ljqh/ZBpnprAPxMMifnPnazdz49l2QdkFgdt8= In-Reply-To: <20091130140429.6a93104d@tux.DEF.witbe.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Rolland Cc: linux-kernel , ACPI Devel Maling List , Kernel Testers List , Alexey Starikovskiy On 11/30/09, Paul Rolland wrote: > Hello Alan, > > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:51:54 +0000 > Alan Jenkins wrote: > >> On 11/26/09, Paul Rolland wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm seeing the following messages in my logs : >> > >> > Nov 26 19:26:27 tux kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by >> > Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424) >> > Nov 26 19:26:27 tux kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method >> > parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node >> > ffff88013f8182e0), AE_TIME >> > Nov 26 19:26:27 tux kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST >> > (20090903/battery-393) >> > >> > Is there anything I can do to provide more informations ? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Paul >> >> Your kernel version would be a good start :-). > I'm really stupid :( > 2.6.32-rc8 > >> The Embedded Controler driver has seen a series of fixes over time. >> This error may be fixed for you in the upcoming 2.6.32 release. So >> you could try testing a release candidate. >> >> It would also be good to tell us the vendor and model of the laptop. > It's a Dell Vostro 1520, Bios revision 04. > > The message itself is "erratic" : it comes up sometimes, with no apparent > reason (at least so far). It occured twice : > /var/log/messages-20091129:Nov 26 19:26:27 tux kernel: ACPI Error > (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] > (Node ffff88013f8182e0), AE_TIME > /var/log/messages-20091129:Nov 28 18:20:39 tux kernel: ACPI Error > (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] > (Node ffff88013f8182e0), AE_TIME > > but I never got it with previous -rc releases, which is why I got > surprised, though I can't say it's preventing something to work ! It sounds hard to pin this down, given how random it is. Can we assume you used a 2.6.31(-ish) kernel for some time, without seeing these errors? There weren't too many relevant EC changes since 2.6.31 (and at least the new DMI check should be easy to rule out). You could create an entry on the bugzilla.kernel.org and attach the output of "dmidecode". That would at least record the existence of a problem. I'm afraid I can't think of anything else. Possibly Alexey will think of some other questions, now I've got the right address for him :). Thanks Alan