Re: ACPICA Release 20081031 linuxized patch set

Lin Ming
2008-11-13T07:56:39Z

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 15:31 +0800, Len Brown wrote:
>
> $ 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.
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11822
>

Thanks, I'm looking at this.

Lin Ming