Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759537AbXH2Tfq (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:35:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754891AbXH2Tfi (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:35:38 -0400 Received: from viefep27-int.chello.at ([62.179.121.47]:55637 "EHLO viefep27-int.chello.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753040AbXH2Tfh (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:35:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 72361 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:35:37 EDT From: Daniel Ritz To: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:35:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Piotrowski References: <200708290129.57243.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> <46D4F905.6080908@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <46D4F905.6080908@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708292135.57584.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1673 Lines: 45 On Wednesday 29 August 2007 06:41:41 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Daniel, > Does this patch help you, or do we need to revert the whole thing? > yes, this does the trick. the fan goes on again. thanks. if you still need additional debug output or if you want me to test a different patch just let me know. rgds -daniel > Sorry for the trouble, > Alex. > 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/