From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ernst Herzberg Subject: Re: Re: making progress with ACPI was: ACPI small patch up date Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 07:08:37 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <200210300708.37599.earny@net4u.de> References: Reply-To: earny-euM3SP4ZHrg@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Grover, Andrew" , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Mittwoch, 30. Oktober 2002 00:50, Grover, Andrew wrote: > > We can fix bugs, the problem is *diagnosing* the issue. There's only so > much diagnosis that can be done without the hardware. If you say "line 444 > of ec.c is acquiring a semaphore at interrupt level" that's probably > enough. If you post a patch, we'll apply it. If you just say "my system > hangs" then it's a lot harder. Sometimes the dmesg or DSDT are enough that > other people can suss out what might be the problem -- sometimes not. > Hm. Give me some debugging hints. I'm not a kernel hacker, and i see the need for ACPI, but this stuff is complex. I have not the time and i am not willing to understand every line in the code. But i'm willing to help you to help you to fix problems in the code. ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE looks for me like a function that can help. Should it work if i change acpi_set_debug(..) to ACPI_DEBUG_HIGH in acpi_init(void)? Last try i get a kernel that don't start or was not able to send any printk-message. (clean 2.4.20-pre11, newest patched ACPI patch, compiled into, not modules, gcc3.2) Problem is, that thermal and processor doesn't work anymore, no error message, no warning... no hint ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf