From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263568AbUBATlI (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:41:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265094AbUBATlI (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:41:08 -0500 Received: from fmr04.intel.com ([143.183.121.6]:39587 "EHLO caduceus.sc.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263568AbUBATlF (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:41:05 -0500 Subject: Re: ACPI breakage in 2.6.2-rc3 (and before) From: Len Brown To: trelane@digitasaru.net Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1075664452.2394.5.camel@dhcppc4> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3 Date: 01 Feb 2004 14:40:52 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joseph, Please try this patch http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=1965&action=view from this bug report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1766 It should be in the next mm patch, and if it causes no regression will be pushed to 2.6.2. thanks, -Len On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 15:19, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > From Linus Torvalds on Friday, 30 January, 2004: > >The bulk of this is an ACPI update, but there's USB, ia-64, i2c, XFS > and > >PCI hotplug updates here too. > >Please don't send in anything but critical fixes until after the > final > >2.6.2 release. > > Hmm. I just tried 2.6.2-rc3 (after having tried 2.6.1 after having > tried 2.6.2-rc2-mm1), and I note that ACPI can get my battery > status in 2.6.1, but *not* in 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 or in 2.6.2-rc3. > It notes that there is a battery in one of the two bays, and > that it's on battery or AC power, but nothing more; all status > readouts say that the battery's drained. > > System is a Dell Inspiron 8600. > > Thanks! > > > -Joseph > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >