acpi-patch + kernel 2.4.19

acpi-patch + kernel 2.4.19

[Sebastian Henschel]

hi folx...

did anyone of you try to install the current acpi-patch to the current
linux kernel 2.4.19?

i am very confused, since the structure of the files in linux/drivers/acpi
seems to have changed enormously. on the other hand, acpi from the original
kernel still seems to be quite old (output from dmesg):

ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20011018]
ACPI: Subsystem enabled

well, and as you can see, acpi claims to be enabled. but there is no
/proc/acpi to be found. even with the stock 2.4.18 a couple of months ago, 
i had at least something in there.

any insights?

cheers,
 sebastian

p.s.: please cc: me or group-reply, i am not on the list, so far.
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Re: acpi-patch + kernel 2.4.19

[Andy Dustman]

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 17:55, Sebastian Henschel wrote:

> did anyone of you try to install the current acpi-patch to the current
> linux kernel 2.4.19?

Just for fun, I tried to merge the current patch into 2.4.19 last night.
It wasn't fun.

Actually, I wrote a script that does a three-way merge, in the same
manner as diff3 -m, but working recursively. There are a number of
conflicts, which you would likely get just applying the patch directly
as well. Some of the conflicts are non-trivial, or at least, they were
non-trivial for me to fix them, but I may give it another look.

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Re: acpi-patch + kernel 2.4.19

[Jörg Sonnenberger]

Am Mittwoch, 7. August 2002 23:55 schrieb Sebastian Henschel:
> hi folx...
>
> did anyone of you try to install the current acpi-patch to the current
> linux kernel 2.4.19?
>

Well, I tried against 2.4.19-ac1. The patch itself creates lots of rejects, 
some of them I couldn't solve directly. 

> i am very confused, since the structure of the files in linux/drivers/acpi
> seems to have changed enormously. on the other hand, acpi from the original
> kernel still seems to be quite old (output from dmesg):
>
> ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20011018]
> ACPI: Subsystem enabled

Yep, this version doesn't support my battery state, 2.5.25 does.

>
> well, and as you can see, acpi claims to be enabled. but there is no
> /proc/acpi to be found. even with the stock 2.4.18 a couple of months ago,
> i had at least something in there.
>

That's strange. It's working for me with both the plain 2.4.18 and 2.4.19-ac1. 
Any error message in dmesg? Perhaps the bios is some kind of broken or acpi 
is inactivated per command line?

> any insights?
>
> cheers,
>  sebastian
>
> p.s.: please cc: me or group-reply, i am not on the list, so far.

Jörg


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RE: acpi-patch + kernel 2.4.19

[Grover, Andrew]

> From: Andy Dustman [mailto:andy-gRfBfDTKyCbR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org] 
> Just for fun, I tried to merge the current patch into 2.4.19 
> last night.
> It wasn't fun.
> 
> Actually, I wrote a script that does a three-way merge, in the same
> manner as diff3 -m, but working recursively. There are a number of
> conflicts, which you would likely get just applying the patch directly
> as well. Some of the conflicts are non-trivial, or at least, they were
> non-trivial for me to fix them, but I may give it another look.

For those of you using BK, the linux-2.4-acpi tree at linux-acpi.bkbits.net
is merged up to 2.4.20-pre2 and contains the latest ACPI patch.

(yes, the merge wasn't fun...)

Regards -- Andy


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