Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760238AbXH2Tp3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:45:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754962AbXH2TpW (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:45:22 -0400 Received: from charybdis-ext.suse.de ([195.135.221.2]:44035 "EHLO emea5-mh.id5.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754819AbXH2TpV (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:45:21 -0400 Message-ID: <46D5CCBD.5050103@suse.de> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:45:01 +0400 From: Alexey Starikovskiy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (X11/20070824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Ritz CC: Linus Torvalds , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Piotrowski Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression References: <200708290129.57243.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> <46D4F905.6080908@suse.de> <200708292135.57584.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> In-Reply-To: <200708292135.57584.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1917 Lines: 60 If you could open a bugreport at bugzilla.kernel.org in ACPI category and attach dmesg and acpidump output, that would help a lot. (I hope :( ) Thanks, Alex. Daniel Ritz wrote: > 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/