Re: ACPI device for ASUS EEEPC 1101HA not added

[Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:19:22AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:25 +0800, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > On my new 1101HA Eeepc, the special function keys do not work. This is
> > because the asus-laptop driver fails to match the ACPI device named
> > "ASUS010". However, acpidump tells me a device with that name does
> > actually exist - the (simplified) disassembly of the DSDT is below.
> > 
> > It looks like the gigantic parser state machine fails to add that
> > device for whatever reason. Any ideas how to fix that?
> > 
> eeepc is handled in eeepci-laptop driver.
> 
> ~/src/linux-2.6$ grep ASUS010 drivers/platform/*/*
> drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c:#define EEEPC_ACPI_HID		"ASUS010"

Yes, that I know. The driver was just unable to match the device because
it was not detected by the ACPI core. Works now with the patch Andrej
sent. I would still like to make sure it's getting merged mainline
sooner or later.

Thanks,
Daniel