Re: Re: making progress with ACPI was: ACPI small patch up date

Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-30T06:09:19Z

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Ernst Herzberg wrote:

| 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.

That (debug hints) is one of the things that should be on an updated
ACPI web page IMO, along with DSDT issues, patches, etc.

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~Randy
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