Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752957AbZLAOJQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:09:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752753AbZLAOJP (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:09:15 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:55004 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752430AbZLAOJO (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:09:14 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=nJCh5UdVoGDV2TLFG06Giaq+eN+CgiSJagV4bnyYg4XUJC9Q8F6VzEA0Lc1QVxsEj8 V0g3KmOw9uqCbIcYIEj0J0PjCeZkU5QoD8PaECUhHuGvUncll93VgdnoPjbdpPYQuEhB 1WSxZw8s4e7z5N6MDWmLmH0P0wv2UagvWfYY4= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091130140429.6a93104d@tux.DEF.witbe.net> References: <20091126193221.3ed8cbf0@tux.DEF.witbe.net> <9b2b86520911300451s63ddc589seb66f3dee48b0cbd@mail.gmail.com> <20091130140429.6a93104d@tux.DEF.witbe.net> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:09:18 +0000 Message-ID: <9b2b86520912010609k687dd30cre49a7dfea5c84a60@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: ACPI Exception... From: Alan Jenkins To: Paul Rolland Cc: linux-kernel , ACPI Devel Maling List , Kernel Testers List , Alexey Starikovskiy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2606 Lines: 65 On 11/30/09, Paul Rolland wrote: > Hello Alan, > > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:51:54 +0000 > Alan Jenkins wrote: > >> On 11/26/09, Paul Rolland wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm seeing the following messages in my logs : >> > >> > Nov 26 19:26:27 tux kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by >> > Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424) >> > Nov 26 19:26:27 tux kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method >> > parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node >> > ffff88013f8182e0), AE_TIME >> > Nov 26 19:26:27 tux kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST >> > (20090903/battery-393) >> > >> > Is there anything I can do to provide more informations ? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Paul >> >> Your kernel version would be a good start :-). > I'm really stupid :( > 2.6.32-rc8 > >> The Embedded Controler driver has seen a series of fixes over time. >> This error may be fixed for you in the upcoming 2.6.32 release. So >> you could try testing a release candidate. >> >> It would also be good to tell us the vendor and model of the laptop. > It's a Dell Vostro 1520, Bios revision 04. > > The message itself is "erratic" : it comes up sometimes, with no apparent > reason (at least so far). It occured twice : > /var/log/messages-20091129:Nov 26 19:26:27 tux kernel: ACPI Error > (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] > (Node ffff88013f8182e0), AE_TIME > /var/log/messages-20091129:Nov 28 18:20:39 tux kernel: ACPI Error > (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] > (Node ffff88013f8182e0), AE_TIME > > but I never got it with previous -rc releases, which is why I got > surprised, though I can't say it's preventing something to work ! It sounds hard to pin this down, given how random it is. Can we assume you used a 2.6.31(-ish) kernel for some time, without seeing these errors? There weren't too many relevant EC changes since 2.6.31 (and at least the new DMI check should be easy to rule out). You could create an entry on the bugzilla.kernel.org and attach the output of "dmidecode". That would at least record the existence of a problem. I'm afraid I can't think of anything else. Possibly Alexey will think of some other questions, now I've got the right address for him :). Thanks Alan -- 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/