From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261957AbUBCAHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:07:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264288AbUBCAHw (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:07:52 -0500 Received: from hb6.lcom.net ([216.51.236.182]:21120 "EHLO petrus.dynamic.digitasaru.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261957AbUBCAHo (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:07:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:07:36 -0600 From: Joseph Pingenot To: Len Brown Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ACPI breakage in 2.6.2-rc3 (and before) Message-ID: <20040203000732.GA6376@digitasaru.net> Reply-To: trelane@digitasaru.net Mail-Followup-To: Len Brown , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List References: <1075664452.2394.5.camel@dhcppc4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1075664452.2394.5.camel@dhcppc4> X-School: University of Iowa X-vi-or-emacs: vi *and* emacs! X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Not Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>From Len Brown on Sunday, 01 February, 2004: >Joseph, >Please try this patch >http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=1965&action=view >from this bug report: >http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1766 >It should be in the next mm patch, and if it causes no regression will >be pushed to 2.6.2. >thanks, >-Len Patch works! I just applied and tested, and it worked great. What magic does that patch work? Thanks! -Joseph >On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 15:19, Joseph Pingenot wrote: >> From Linus Torvalds on Friday, 30 January, 2004: >> >The bulk of this is an ACPI update, but there's USB, ia-64, i2c, XFS >> and >> >PCI hotplug updates here too. >> >Please don't send in anything but critical fixes until after the >> final >> >2.6.2 release. >> Hmm. I just tried 2.6.2-rc3 (after having tried 2.6.1 after having >> tried 2.6.2-rc2-mm1), and I note that ACPI can get my battery >> status in 2.6.1, but *not* in 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 or in 2.6.2-rc3. >> It notes that there is a battery in one of the two bays, and >> that it's on battery or AC power, but nothing more; all status >> readouts say that the battery's drained. >> System is a Dell Inspiron 8600. >> Thanks!