From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752927AbYKGWdZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:33:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751667AbYKGWdP (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:33:15 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:39777 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751279AbYKGWdO (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:33:14 -0500 Subject: patch acpi-dock-avoid-check-_sta-method.patch added to 2.6.25-stable tree To: shaohua.li@intel.com, gregkh@suse.de, len.brown@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: , From: Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:19:53 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <20081107223313.81FA048D65@coco.kroah.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled Subject: ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method to the 2.6.25-stable tree. Its filename is acpi-dock-avoid-check-_sta-method.patch A git repo of this tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary >>From lenb@kernel.org Fri Nov 7 14:08:55 2008 From: Shaohua Li Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:18:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method To: stable@kernel.org Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Shaohua Li Message-ID: From: Shaohua Li commit 8b59560a3baf2e7c24e0fb92ea5d09eca92805db upstream. ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method In some BIOSes, every _STA method call will send a notification again, this cause freeze. And in some BIOSes, it appears _STA should be called after _DCK. This tries to avoid calls _STA, and still keep the device present check. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10431 Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/acpi/dock.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c @@ -599,14 +599,17 @@ static int handle_eject_request(struct d static void dock_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 event, void *data) { struct dock_station *ds = data; + struct acpi_device *tmp; switch (event) { case ACPI_NOTIFY_BUS_CHECK: - if (!dock_in_progress(ds) && dock_present(ds)) { + if (!dock_in_progress(ds) && acpi_bus_get_device(ds->handle, + &tmp)) { begin_dock(ds); dock(ds); if (!dock_present(ds)) { printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Unable to dock!\n"); + complete_dock(ds); break; } atomic_notifier_call_chain(&dock_notifier_list, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shaohua.li@intel.com are queue-2.6.25/acpi-dock-avoid-check-_sta-method.patch