Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:25:33 -0800
To: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: BUG 2.6.14.2 : ACPI boot lockup
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:12:43PM -0800, Rajesh Shah wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:06:09PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > 
> > 	This patch does not look right to me, but I must admit I have
> > no clue about what the code is doing. Can you confirm you want me to
> > try this ?
> > 
> Yes, please try this since this is known to fix at least a couple
> of other machines (see 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=116763)

	Ok, I tried it. It works. Kernel boot fine, Pcmcia card works,
X works.
	I double checked with /proc/cmdline that I did not have the
noacpi stuff.
	Works for me.

> The original acpi code ignored errors related to matching an
> acpi device to an acpi driver. I changed that behavior to flag
> an error, and this was wrong. An acpi device listed in the
> namespace should not be required to have a driver for it to
> be added to the acpi list.

	Well, your code is running well before any driver are
loaded... Even most drivers compiled-in are initialised later...

> thanks,
> Rajesh

	Jean

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