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From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Subject: Re: ACPICA Release 20081031 linuxized patch set
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:54:56 +0800
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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