Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754689AbYGBRiR (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:38:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751950AbYGBRh7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:37:59 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.245]:28881 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751877AbYGBRh6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:37:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=wMtZI8PpQH0WfXBApfJvLRfuJ8krh6RBFmRp39BL0gYmFG/mMEex0UQTvjSurD17sF tFipkxGrGpCYn0sA/JuuDsbXo2zYhXcYuFVfSH+93eq0a2ZkZKQG6/XqgBumd4jTGAk6 iOKw7KK0WtVfrWG6m3MM+hnwENRLtU7HtJwKc= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:37:56 +0000 From: "Justin Mattock" To: "Matthew Garrett" Subject: Re: dsdt buggy acpi Cc: "Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "ACPI Devel Maling List" In-Reply-To: <20080702163510.GA8912@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200807011619.53339.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080702082555.0959ef2b@linux360.ro> <20080702100935.GA699@srcf.ucam.org> <20080702144820.29f7d43d@linux360.ro> <20080702115527.GA3396@srcf.ucam.org> <20080702163510.GA8912@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1672 Lines: 41 On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:30:11PM +0000, Justin Mattock wrote: > >> Hello; what info is supplied with EFI i.g. I'm using a macbook pro. >> After looking at: >> http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php I was unable to locate >> anything with apple, or at least >> couldn't find the manufacture number. >> If somebody has already done this, I was wondering if it would be O.K. >> if I can attached my dsdt.dsl with the errors, >> and my explanation of what I changed, just so If I did something >> completely wrong > > iasl will complain about code that the Linux interpreter will happily > accept. If the only reason you've made changes is that iasl complains, > then it's unlikely that there's any functional difference as a result. > Otherwise, work out which changes fix which Linux bugs and file a bug > at bugzilla.kernel.org against acpi. > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org > Hello; I modified dsdt because iasl was complaining, As a result like what you said "then it's unlikely that there's any functional difference as a result" is probably what I'm seeing. As for a bug report I already have one filed. As to why I'm messing with the dsdt, just trying to isolate the problem with the bug I have already filed., or at least get a better idea of what is happening. Anyways thanks for the info. regards; -- Justin P. Mattock -- 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/