Re: ACPI breakage (Re: 2.6.19-rc6: known regressions (v2))

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

On Saturday 18 November 2006 8:33 pm, David Brownell wrote:
> On Saturday 18 November 2006 11:05 am, David Brownell wrote:
> > 
> > Running right now with a patch reverting the update which
> > made trouble on Linus' machine, but without Alexey's two
> > tweaks to the EC interrupt handler.  So far so good, even
> > after doing things which had previously caused AE_TIME
> > errors pretty quickly.  But then, the errors weren't what
> > I'd call reproducible either.
> 
> Hmm, well after a reboot to sort out some other patches,
> and at uptime of ~2 hours, I noticed confusion about
> whether AC or battery power was active, then the old:
> 
> ACPI Exception (evregion-0424): AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20060707]
> ACPI Exception (dswexec-0458): AE_TIME, While resolving operands for [OpcodeName unavailable] [20060707]
> ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node ffff810002032d10), AE_TIME
> 
> So maybe that's not the entire story; sigh.

Whatever it is, it hasn't shown its ugly little face since then.
So while it doesn't seem completely fixed ... it's nowhere near
as broken as it was previously.

- Dave