Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4)

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that Matthew Garrett may or may not have written...

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:15:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
>> As things stand, this is likely to be a problem for anybody using lenny on
>> Eee hardware and upgrading (on their own) to 2.6.29, given that that
>> workaround is present in eeepc-acpi-scripts in lenny.
>> Anyway, removing that option fixes the problem.

> Ok. I'll look into ensuring that these don't collide, but fundamentally the
> problem here is distributions using broken options rather than fixing the
> problem properly in the first place.

Not so much "broken options" as "using the ony available workaround at the
time", I think. I have no idea what action other than using this option was
taken.

>>> BIOS bug. There's an explicit delay in the eee bios for some reason,
>>> and I haven't found any straightforward way to avoid it.
>> BIOS bug or no, the fact remains that this is (AFAICS) a regression.

> You don't get properly working hotkeys otherwise, to the best of my
> recollection.

I can't say that I've noticed any problems.

> There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this somewhere.

This one, I think: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12243

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