Re: sony-laptop: ACPI Exception when a Fn-Key is pressed

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, yakui_zhao wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:13 +0800, Rodrigo Luiz wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> wrote:
> > >
> > > Does booting with acpi_osi=Linux makes things any worse? (it should fix
> > > the above error but might make some other functionality behave
> > > differently).
> > > Or eventually also see if there is a bios upgrade available for your
> > > laptop.
> > >
> > 
> Does the warning message exist when booting the previous kernel? For
> example: 2.6.28 kernel.
> 
> Will you please try the following commit patch and see whether this issue still exists?
>    >commit 7b46ecd5fcebf381a7bde966db352d8fb1b8e944
>    >Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
>    >Date:   Wed Feb 25 18:00:18 2009 -0500
>      >Revert "ACPI: make some IO ports off-limits to AML"

That commit shipped in 2.6.29, so Rodrigo should already have it.

ie. 2.6.29 should behave just like 2.6.28.

by "latest git", i assume Rodrigo means 2.6.29-git*, ie 2.6.30 merge 
window.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center