Re: [PATCH] asus_atk0110: add support for Asus P7P55D

Thomas Backlund
2009-10-01T16:21:10Z

Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 08:40:59AM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:38:21 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org> wrote:
>>>>> Try this one:
>>>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125421276407283&w=2
>>>> With that patch it's lasted almost a day with no timeouts, previously
>>>> I was getting about one every hour. Has that patch been submitted?
>>> Do you mean you're still getting timeouts but they are less frequent,
>>> or you did not get any timeout at all so far?
>> So far no timeout at all (after about 36 hours).
>
> Good. I have a new patch for you then :P
>
> This version checks whether the EC is already enabled or not before touching it
> and also restore the state when the module is unloaded.
> You should check that the driver keeps working when is unloaded and reloaded.
>

I tried your latest patch on a P7P55D Deluxe and get this:
> [ 10.419119] ACPI Error: Field [PR11] at 64 exceeds Buffer [NULL] size 32 (bits) (20090903/dsopcode-596)
> [ 10.419125] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.ASOC.GITM] (Node ffff88023f8147a0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT
> [ 10.419157] ATK0110 ATK0110:00: GITM[0x11060004] ACPI exception: AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT
> [ 10.419158] ATK0110 ATK0110:00: Unable to query EC status
> [ 10.419161] ATK0110: probe of ATK0110:00 failed with error -5

Your earlier patch did only report this:
[ 10.632195] ATK0110 ATK0110:00: EC enabled

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Thomas