Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759253AbXH2UzZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:55:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753507AbXH2UzM (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:55:12 -0400 Received: from viefep18-int.chello.at ([213.46.255.22]:14716 "EHLO viefep28-int.chello.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752345AbXH2UzL (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:55:11 -0400 From: Daniel Ritz To: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:55:32 +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> <200708292135.57584.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> <46D5CCBD.5050103@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <46D5CCBD.5050103@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708292255.33154.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2152 Lines: 67 On Wednesday 29 August 2007 21:45:01 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > 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 :( ) > done. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8958 > 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/