Re: [PATCH] Work around asus_acpi driver oopses on Samsung P30s and the like due to the ACPI implicit return

[Christian Aichinger]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:42:26PM +0100, Karol Kozimor wrote:
> Thus wrote Brown, Len:
> > Karol,
> > Do you have an update of your asus driver in the pipeline
> > that addresses this?
> 
> Here it goes. Rediffed, also plugs a leak my previous patch introduced. I
> believe it addresses Linus' comments. It's still not a proper fix (see
> below), but I believe it's better than none.
> Best regards,

This will break other hardware as the P30/P35 as well, since there
are some buggy DSDT's out there that return an ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER.
That's the whole reason why I was testing exactly for
ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER in my patch.

My first version was pretty simmilar to yours, until I was told on
acpi-devel that this breaks someone elses hardware (causing it to be
considered as P30/P35, while it isn't). I can dig up the mails if
you want.

Cheers,
Christian

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