Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4: BAD regression

[Daniel Ritz]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 06:41:41 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Daniel,
> Does this patch help you, or do we need to revert the whole thing?
> 

yes, this does the trick. the fan goes on again. thanks.
if you still need additional debug output or if you want me to test
a different patch just let me know.

rgds
-daniel

> Sorry for the trouble,
> Alex.
> Daniel Ritz wrote:
> > tried that one on my old toshiba tecra 8000 laptop, almost killing it.
> > the fan doesn't work any more...type 'make' and see the box dying.
> > luckily my CPU doesn't commit suicide...bisected it to that one:
> >
> > cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b is first bad commit
> > commit cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b
> > Author: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Fri Aug 3 17:52:48 2007 -0400
> >
> >     ACPI: EC: If ECDT is not found, look up EC in DSDT.
> >
> >     Some ASUS laptops access EC space from device _INI methods, but do not
> >     provide ECDT for early EC setup. In order to make them function properly,
> >     there is a need to find EC is DSDT before any _INI is called.
> >
> >     Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line
> >     before. Now it is on all the time.
> >
> >     http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8598
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx>
> >     Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> >   


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