Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression

[Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch>]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 21:45:01 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> 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 :( )
> 

done. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8958

> 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?
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > 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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