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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-f>
Subject: Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:45:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090210154533.GA27596@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5030E7CFF4%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:15:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:

> As things stand, this is likely to be a problem for anybody using lenny on
> Eee hardware and upgrading (on their own) to 2.6.29, given that that
> workaround is present in eeepc-acpi-scripts in lenny.
> 
> Anyway, removing that option fixes the problem.

Ok. I'll look into ensuring that these don't collide, but fundamentally 
the problem here is distributions using broken options rather than 
fixing the problem properly in the first place.

> > BIOS bug. There's an explicit delay in the eee bios for some reason, and 
> > I haven't found any straightforward way to avoid it.
> 
> BIOS bug or no, the fact remains that this is (AFAICS) a regression.

You don't get properly working hotkeys otherwise, to the best of my 
recollection. There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this 
somewhere.
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>,
	Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:45:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090210154533.GA27596@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5030E7CFF4%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:15:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:

> As things stand, this is likely to be a problem for anybody using lenny on
> Eee hardware and upgrading (on their own) to 2.6.29, given that that
> workaround is present in eeepc-acpi-scripts in lenny.
> 
> Anyway, removing that option fixes the problem.

Ok. I'll look into ensuring that these don't collide, but fundamentally 
the problem here is distributions using broken options rather than 
fixing the problem properly in the first place.

> > BIOS bug. There's an explicit delay in the eee bios for some reason, and 
> > I haven't found any straightforward way to avoid it.
> 
> BIOS bug or no, the fact remains that this is (AFAICS) a regression.

You don't get properly working hotkeys otherwise, to the best of my 
recollection. There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this 
somewhere.
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-10 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-08 21:01 Linus 2.6.29-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2009-02-09  1:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-09  8:28   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-09 12:18     ` Avi Kivity
2009-02-09 13:34 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-02-09 15:04   ` Steven Noonan
2009-02-09 18:26 ` Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4) Darren Salt
2009-02-09 23:49   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-09 23:49     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-10 14:12     ` Darren Salt
2009-02-10 14:12       ` Darren Salt
2009-02-10 14:54       ` [PATCH 2.6.29-rc4] Restore ACPI reporting via /proc/acpi/events for EeePC & other Asus laptops Darren Salt
2009-02-10 14:54         ` Darren Salt
2009-02-24 11:31         ` Corentin Chary
2009-02-10 15:04       ` Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4) Matthew Garrett
2009-02-10 15:04         ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-10 15:15         ` Darren Salt
2009-02-10 15:15           ` Darren Salt
2009-02-10 15:45           ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-02-10 15:45             ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-10 16:03             ` Darren Salt
2009-02-23 16:39               ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-23 16:39                 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-24 15:29                 ` Darren Salt
2009-02-24 16:00                   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-24 16:00                     ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-24 19:45                     ` Darren Salt
2009-02-10 16:06             ` Corentin Chary
2009-02-10 19:16               ` Darren Salt
2009-02-11  2:03                 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-11  2:03                   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-11  1:23               ` yakui_zhao
2009-04-19  1:56           ` [PATCH] eee-laptop: Register as a pci-hotplug device Matthew Garrett
2009-04-19  7:20             ` Corentin Chary
2009-04-19 15:13               ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-25 14:12                 ` Corentin Chary
2009-04-26 17:16                   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-26 20:51                     ` Corentin Chary
2009-02-10  1:06   ` Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4) yakui_zhao
2009-02-10  1:06     ` yakui_zhao
2009-02-10 14:02 ` [PATCH] Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT V2 (Was Linus 2.6.29-rc4) Mel Gorman
2009-02-10 23:45   ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-11 11:15     ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-11  9:43   ` Andy Whitcroft
2009-02-11 10:30     ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-11 12:03       ` Andy Whitcroft
2009-02-11 14:20         ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-11 16:03           ` Andy Whitcroft
2009-02-11 16:34             ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-11 16:43               ` Andy Whitcroft

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