From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
To: Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>
Cc: Linux-LKLM <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [i8k] GIT current's i8k module does not load on Inspiron 8200 laptops
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101031234443.GA8332@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101002081811.GA9024@marc.osknowledge.org>
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> the i8k module does no longer load on my DELL Inspiron 8200 laptops. It says this on one machine:
>
> Oct 2 10:06:01 marc kernel: [ 16.239867] i8k: unable to get SMM Dell
> signature
>
> Due to git log there's nothing changed for a while and I cannot figure out, what's the problem. Does anyone of you?
>
Apparently this is a recent GCC issue caused by optimization of the
inline asm. Making the asm volatile seems to work around the problem
according to reporters.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647677 and
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=780692#p780692.
regards, Kyle
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