Re: Bisection result: eeepc hotk breakage

[Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>]

Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>
> Alan Jenkins wrote:
>> Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>>> Alan Jenkins wrote:
>>>> Well, that didn't work.
>>> Pity...
>>> Could you produce a debug log from EC?
>>> Probably it's a good time to open a new bug report...
>>
>> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11917>
>> "Asus Eee PC hotkeys stop working after prolonged usage"
>>
>> I stuck at it, found a reliable test and bisected successfully.
>> 2.6.28-rc2 is broken, but I can fix it by reverting the bad commit.
>> (There were some conflicts, I fixed up the dock driver manually and
>> avoided building the rest).
> Alan, to make things clear -- reverting following commit makes EC work
> without
> a problem?
>


Yes, that's right.


>>
>>
>> 27663c5855b10af9ec67bc7dfba001426ba21222 is first bad commit
>> commit 27663c5855b10af9ec67bc7dfba001426ba21222
>> Author: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
>> Date:   Fri Oct 10 02:22:59 2008 -0400
>>
>>     ACPI: Change acpi_evaluate_integer to support 64-bit on 32-bit
>> kernels
>>
>>     As of version 2.0, ACPI can return 64-bit integers.  The current
>>     acpi_evaluate_integer only supports 64-bit integers on 64-bit
>> platforms.
>>     Change the argument to take a pointer to an acpi_integer so we
>> support
>>     64-bit integers on all platforms.
>>
>>     lenb: replaced use of "acpi_integer" with "unsigned long long"
>>     lenb: fixed bug in acpi_thermal_trips_update()
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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