Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3

[Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:15:08AM -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:00:33PM -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> >  
> > 
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Benoit Boissinot [mailto:bboissin@gmail.com] 
> > >Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:00 AM
> > >To: Andrew Morton
> > >Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Pallipadi, Venkatesh; Brown, Len
> > >Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3
> > >
> > >On 8/27/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> 
> > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2
> > >.6.18-rc4/2.6.18-rc4-mm3/
> > >>
> > >>  git-acpi.patch
> > >
> > >commit f62d31ee2f2f453b07107465fea54540cab418eb broke my laptop
> > >(pentium M, dell D600).
> > >I can reliably get a hard lockup (no sysrq) when modprobing ehci_hcd
> > >and uhci_hci. It works when reverting the changeset.
> > >
> > >I can provide cpuinfo or dmesg if necessary.
> > >
> 
> Attached is the updated patch. Please test it on your system whenever you get
> a chance. ACPI C-states and /proc/acpi/processor/*/power should show similar
> numbers with or without this patch. It should not hang as before.
> 

It looks like it's running fine! So far I didn't have any hang whereas
it was completely reproducable before.

thanks,

Benoit
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