From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756971AbZGHWZS (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:25:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754550AbZGHWZH (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:25:07 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:32847 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753869AbZGHWZG (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:25:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:24:35 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Alan Jenkins , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek , Len Brown Subject: Re: [BISECTED] (REGRESSION) HP G7000 battery disappears after suspend Message-ID: <20090708232435.5e694c28@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200907082141.18135.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <61b223ba0907081216q3813c8f0n677bcce8b24ae52c@mail.gmail.com> <200907082141.18135.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Now, the only case this patch can make any difference is when the BIOS doesn't > set SCI_EN before returning control the the kernel, which quite evidently is a > BIOS bug. The fact that the battery doesn't work with this patch applied means > that the BIOS not only doesn't set SCI_EN, but also expects it to remain unset, > which is insane. > > IMO this is a "won't fix", sorry. It's an "oh god we need another DMI entry" case and a regression so it wants fixing for the next -rc. Alan