Re: udev broken by recent ACPI git commits

[Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>]

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> Please test that the latest ACPICA patch works on your system and shout if it doesn't.
> In particular, if you've got an nx6325 like Rafael's, it would be interesting to know
> if you see the same issue.
> 
> You can snag the latest ACPICA patch vs  top of Linus' tree via git or plain patch here:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git acpica
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/test/2.6.19/acpi-acpica-20061011-2.6.19-rc4.diff.gz

Rafael,
What BIOS version is running on your nx6325?
What do you see if you add the patch below to the ACPICA  patch?

thanks,
-Len


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diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
index 328bd73..d39cd90 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
@@ -513,6 +513,9 @@ static unsigned long get_cmos_time(void)
 		if (acpi_gbl_FADT.header.revision >= FADT2_REVISION_ID &&
 					acpi_gbl_FADT.century)
 			extyear = CMOS_READ(acpi_gbl_FADT.century);
+printk("get_cmos_time(): acpi_gbl_FADT.century %d extyear %d\n",
+	acpi_gbl_FADT.century, extyear);
+extyear = 0;
 #endif
 	} while (sec != CMOS_READ(RTC_SECONDS));