From: Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>
To: "Mark M." <maalox-XzQKRVe1yT0V+D8aMU/kSg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:43:40 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031231174230.R3326@root.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FF31FB6.7040306-XzQKRVe1yT0V+D8aMU/kSg@public.gmane.org>
I can confirm success for one FreeBSD user with a broken Inspiron also.
Thanks for your work and I hope you can come up with a proper fix and
import it soon!
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Mark M. wrote:
> Success! I used the patch below and things seem to be working again.
> Actually, I manually edited my (2.6.0-mm)
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmthdat.c
> because i don't think the paths in the patch would have worked. I just
> recompiled the kernel and rebooted.
>
> As a side note, I didn't include the before last line of the patch
> "new_obj_desc;", because it wasn't in my version of the file.
We removed that line from FreeBSD since it appears to be a typo. Patch
was submitted back to Intel.
-Nate
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2003-12-31 10:31 RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500 Yu, Luming
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2003-12-31 19:12 ` Mark M.
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2004-01-01 1:43 ` Nate Lawson [this message]
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2004-01-18 7:01 Yu, Luming
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2003-12-26 23:33 ` Mark M.
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2003-12-30 17:59 ` Nate Lawson
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