Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754543AbXLJCZc (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:25:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751976AbXLJCZX (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:25:23 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.191]:14766 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751956AbXLJCZV (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:25:21 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uJ1d9WTw1g94WJ90SHXobQpsZDeiYyX/bBrPkCkAWmqINKoS0ULr2C33k4Z1Et/poTwsIYcpP6lNmt9QwUOUM19u0NtXLa+DYL+ZLsmZ5o+5vBCKzhsbiyJLDSnh9NzTiZaabFGmyVksrQedBsl4Bu0BVccLi2SRS1EBiun41hs= Message-ID: <475CA388.9050805@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:25:12 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hancock CC: Andreas Mohr , Matthew Garrett , Andrew Morton , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23 References: <475AE150.9050306@shaw.ca> <20071209213642.GA27096@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <20071210000429.GA3916@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <20071210004959.GA23280@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <475C9643.2000202@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <475C9643.2000202@shaw.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 860 Lines: 23 Robert Hancock wrote: > And you're quite right in your comment that we are often too quick to > blacklist hardware instead of looking into why it really is failing. > ACPI is one of those areas where we often just need to figure out how to > be bug-to-bug compatibile with what Windows is doing.. In the spirit of not blacklisting without looking deep into ACPI code, can somebody familiar with ASL take a look at comment 11 of bug 9320? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9320#c11 This is libata calling _GTM to find out how the BIOS configured the device to determine cable type. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/