From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: EC: Fall back to DSDT scan if ECDT is broken Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:42:24 +0400 Message-ID: <46CE53A0.60701@suse.de> References: <46CAE65E.3000703@suse.de> <46CAE733.1010109@suse.de> <200708232337.57454.lenb@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from charybdis-ext.suse.de ([195.135.221.2]:50975 "EHLO emea5-mh.id5.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933283AbXHXDmk (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:42:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200708232337.57454.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List Len Brown wrote: > On Tuesday 21 August 2007 09:22, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >> + printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "ECDT is broken\n"); >> > > I think this is > 1. guaranteed to happen > No, it does not happen on machine with correct ECDT, e.g. my TP is ok. > 2. guaranteed to alarm users and be viewed as a regression. > There is a message, that we are trying to get boot EC from just found ECDT. If it fails, we tell why. > They have no clue what an ECDT is, and this warning > doesn't tell them what to do about it, if anything. > > -Len >