Re: AE_BAD_HEX_CONSTANT

[Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>]

Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:49:44AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>                        Name (BT0I, Package (0x0D)
>>                        {
>>                            0x01,
>>                            0x19C8,
>>                            0x19C8,
>>                            0x01,
>>                            0x39D0,
>>                            0x014A,
>>                            0xDC,
>>                            0x012C,
>>                            0x0294,
>>                            "ANA",
>>                            "110",
>>                            "Lion",
>>                            0x00
>>                        })
>>
>>Looking more carefully, it looks like commenting out just the last line 
>>("Acer") would suffice.  Index 0xC is actually an integer (0x00) so this 
>>is what triggers the Integer conversion.  I'm not sure how the 
>>conversion rules should be modified to take this into account.
>>
> 
> 
> I suggest to replace the last integer with a string like "Acer".  Since
> anyway BT0I is expected to be a package returned by a _BIF method, it
> must be compatible with ACPI spec (look at 11.2.2.1).
> 

I agree to test this, but I'd also like to see acpi-ca improved to 
handle this case with the stock ASL.

-- 
Nate


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