Re: Aspire 1511LMI - Aspire 1513LMI DSDT

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 02:36:35PM +0000, giupil wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
> 
> I'm sorry for my ignorance, I'm not a expert. I'm very gratefull for 
> your notes.
> The only problem that still remains in my mind is:
> 
>   In
>  
>   http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/tables/ACER/Aspire_1513LMi/-
>   ACER-Aspire_1513LMi-unknown_bios-custom.asl.gz
>  
>   at the line 3893 of the ACER-Aspire_1513LMi-unknown_bios-custom.dsl 
> decompiled file, I
>   find:
> 
>                    Return (Package (0x02)
>                    {
>                            Zero,
>                            Zero
>                     })
> 
>    but at the 
> http://casteyde.christian.free.fr/laptop/LinuxOnAspire1511LMi.html in the
>    dsdt_asp1511.asl at the line 3895, I find:
> 
> 
>                    Return (0x00)
> 
>    These corrections are about the warnig:
> 
>    mydsdt_orig.dsl  3865:                     Method (DRUL, 1, 
> NotSerialized)
>    Warning  2019 -                              ^ Not all control paths 
> return a value (DRUL)

The other paths return an integer, and this is not a reserved method.
So return an integer ;)

I would buy for 'Return (0)', but anyway I will not care for this at
all, since it's called only in order to query a VGA change via probably
a hotkey at first read (via a _Q?? method), and there is
nothing to verify the return values anyway in the AML.


-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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