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From: Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: 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>
Subject: Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:03:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5030EC39A4%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090210154533.GA27596@srcf.ucam.org>

I demand that Matthew Garrett may or may not have written...

> 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.

Not so much "broken options" as "using the ony available workaround at the
time", I think. I have no idea what action other than using this option was
taken.

>>> 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.

I can't say that I've noticed any problems.

> There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this somewhere.

This one, I think: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12243

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-10 16:25 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
2009-02-10 15:45             ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-10 16:03             ` Darren Salt [this message]
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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