From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corentin Chary Subject: Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:06:23 +0100 Message-ID: <71cd59b00902100806s44f40812p441fae0b157cdb9c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090209234911.GB862@elte.hu> <5030E21460%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> <20090210150431.GA26798@srcf.ucam.org> <5030E7CFF4%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> <20090210154533.GA27596@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.190]:6053 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753419AbZBJQGZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:06:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090210154533.GA27596@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Len Brown , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jesse Barnes , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Darren Salt On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. > >> > 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. There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this > somewhere. > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12243 If I understand things correctly, this was already the case before, but the kernel boot was slower, so we could'nt see that. If it's not the case, someone with a 901 should try bisecting (I only have a 701). -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net