Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression

[Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>]

If you could open a bugreport at bugzilla.kernel.org in ACPI category
and attach
dmesg and acpidump output, that would help a lot. (I hope :( )

Thanks,
Alex.

Daniel Ritz wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 August 2007 06:41:41 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>   
>> Daniel,
>> Does this patch help you, or do we need to revert the whole thing?
>>
>>     
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> yes, this does the trick. the fan goes on again. thanks.
> if you still need additional debug output or if you want me to test
> a different patch just let me know.
>
> rgds
> -daniel
>
>   
>> 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>
>>>   
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