Daniel,
Does this patch help you, or do we need to revert the whole thing?

Sorry for the trouble,
Alex.
Daniel Ritz wrote:
> tried that one on my old toshiba tecra 8000 laptop, almost killing it.
> the fan doesn't work any more...type 'make' and see the box dying.
> luckily my CPU doesn't commit suicide...bisected it to that one:
>
> cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b is first bad commit
> commit cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b
> Author: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
> Date:   Fri Aug 3 17:52:48 2007 -0400
>
>     ACPI: EC: If ECDT is not found, look up EC in DSDT.
>
>     Some ASUS laptops access EC space from device _INI methods, but do not
>     provide ECDT for early EC setup. In order to make them function properly,
>     there is a need to find EC is DSDT before any _INI is called.
>
>     Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line
>     before. Now it is on all the time.
>
>     http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8598
>
>     Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
>     Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
>