Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757864AbXH1XnS (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:43:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751123AbXH1XnH (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:43:07 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:46186 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750990AbXH1XnG (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:43:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:42:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Daniel Ritz cc: Alexey Starikovskiy , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression In-Reply-To: <200708290129.57243.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> Message-ID: References: <200708290129.57243.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1676 Lines: 43 Len? Should we just revert it? That commit has been very painful. First it lost all registration of the query methods, and now this. Daniel - can we please have a before/after dmesg on your machine, preferably with ACPI debugging enabled? And for ACPI stuff, it usually does help to fill in a bugzilla entry, since the ACPI people actually do track things there... Linus On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Daniel Ritz wrote: > > tried that one on my old toshiba tecra 8000 laptop, almost killing it. > the fan doesn't work any more...type 'make' and see the box dying. > luckily my CPU doesn't commit suicide...bisected it to that one: > > cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b is first bad commit > commit cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b > Author: Alexey Starikovskiy > Date: Fri Aug 3 17:52:48 2007 -0400 > > ACPI: EC: If ECDT is not found, look up EC in DSDT. > > Some ASUS laptops access EC space from device _INI methods, but do not > provide ECDT for early EC setup. In order to make them function properly, > there is a need to find EC is DSDT before any _INI is called. > > Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line > before. Now it is on all the time. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8598 > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy > Signed-off-by: Len Brown > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/