From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darren Salt Subject: Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:03:33 +0000 Message-ID: <5030EC39A4%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> References: <20090209234911.GB862@elte.hu> <5030E21460%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> <20090210150431.GA26798@srcf.ucam.org> <5030E7CFF4%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> <20090210154533.GA27596@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from lon1-post-3.mail.demon.net ([195.173.77.150]:62658 "EHLO lon1-post-3.mail.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753084AbZBJQZJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:25:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090210154533.GA27596@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Len Brown , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jesse Barnes , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Corentin Chary 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 -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Kill all extremists! "The name's Borg, James Borg. Prepare to be assimilated, Miss Moneypenny."