Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:25:10 -0500
From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       ACPI Developers <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
       "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Toshiba ACPI battery status - ACPI errors
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Jun,

I'd be happy to provide any data to get this problem fixed... how do I
generate an ACPI dump?  I've never done that before.

Bernt

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:04:22PM -0800, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> I suspect this is a known issue with AML code from Toshiba. Their _STA
> does not return a value explicitly, but (wrongly) expects the AML
> interpreter to get the return value returned by the function _STA is
> calling, like
> 	Method (_STA, ....) {
> 		AAA(...)
> 	}
> Instead of 
> 	Method (_STA, ....) {
> 		Return (AAA(...))
> 	}
> 
> If you can provide ACPI dump data of the machine, that would be helpful
> when identifying the cause. Copy the ACPI mailing list and Len.
-- 
Bernt Hansen     Norang Consulting Inc.
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