Re: Incorrect ACPI blacklisting of ASUS P4B266 ?

Olivier Berger
2009-05-06T06:11:24Z

Hi.

Olivier Berger <oberger@ouvaton.org> writes:

> Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> writes:
>
>> On Tuesday 28 April 2009 19:15:47 Olivier Berger wrote:
>>> Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> writes:
>>
>>
>>> I'm thinking about some kind of warning message that might be provided
>>> by the kernel.
>>>
>>> Currently, the blacklisting issues something like :
>>> xxx detected : force use of acpi=ht
>>>
>>> Maybe in some greylisted cases (like such ASUS P4B266), an additional
>>> message may be issued, something like :
>>> xxx detected : may work with acpi=force (test at own risk)
>>> or something like that ?
>> Sounds like a good idea.
>> Something like that (not tested at all).
>> I could imagine Len adds this one if you give it a try and see
>> the message popping up in dmesg.
>
> I can confirm this works.
>

May I ask you to review the patch provided here :
http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=124094144423277&w=2 ?

I'm asking directly as I saw no response on the list. Sorry to bother
you.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,