Re: ACPICA Release 20081031 linuxized patch set

Len Brown
2008-11-13T07:31:46Z

$ git bisect bad
7a55a3d54bd8d9e712e70cf9491f649e7e472a22 is first bad commit
commit 7a55a3d54bd8d9e712e70cf9491f649e7e472a22
Author: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Date: Thu Nov 13 11:08:59 2008 +0800

ACPICA: Add Buffer->String conversion for predefined methods

For predefined methods (such as _BIF), add automatic conversion for
objects that are required to be a String, but a Buffer was found
instead. This can happen when reading string battery data from
an operation region, because it used to be difficult to convert
the data from buffer to string from within the ASL. Linux BZ 11822.