From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Capello Subject: Re: Oops removing thinkpad_acpi and video on git:linux-acpi-2.6 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:00:32 +0200 Message-ID: <871wbr2u1r.fsf@gismo.pca.it> References: <87lka1ffwc.fsf@gismo.pca.it> <20071018012106.GA24821@khazad-dum.debian.net> <87tzoo2q3x.fsf@gismo.pca.it> <20071018230334.GD4483@khazad-dum.debian.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from mbox.unige.ch ([129.194.9.209]:34979 "EHLO mbox.unige.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753405AbXJSMAe (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:00:34 -0400 Received: from gismo.pca.it ([129.194.56.110]) by mbox.unige.ch (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-1.04 (built May 9 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0JQ5005OWQOWKW10@mbox.unige.ch> for linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:00:32 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: ML Linux-ACPI Hi Henrique! On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:03:34 +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Luca Capello wrote: >> Since I experienced the oops after having changed the LCD >> brightness, I pressed several times the brightness up/down Fn keys, >> then removed only the thinkpad_acpi module and voila, I got the >> oops again. [...] > > Hmm, I will see if I can reproduce it. Thank you. > Do you get that problem if you use 2.6.23 + thinkpad-acpi > 0.18-20071013 available at: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=117042 ? I tested 2.6.23.1 + 0.18-20071013, oops still there. Should I test it with the latest linux-acpi-2.6 git tree, also? I don't think it's necessary, but I can do it in case (but please read below). > There is also a git tree, if you prefer: > http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git for > the gitweb interface, there is more data in that. Look at the > release/ branches. Sorry, I'm quite lost with the git tree: in release/ there's nothing about the latest linux-acpi-2.6 tree, what I can see is the different linux releases with spare patches. And if I correctly read the README, I should check what's in for-upstream, which I don't really know how to checkout with git (I performed a `git clone $TREE`). >> Should I perform my tests again with the new BIOS? Or is this bug >> completely unrelated to the BIOS version? > > The bug might even be triggered by the BIOS, but it is a real bug in the > driver. But the new BIOS will probably behave much better re. brightness > functions. Is it OK to wait to upgrade the BIOS until the bug has been fixed? Because if the bug won't be present anymore with the new BIOS, we don't have a way to be sure it's fixed. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca