Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4)

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue Feb 10 2009 - 10:04:51 EST


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:12:44PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:

> Reverting this fixes the rfkill oops; things work correctly again. I don't
> know why this appears to be needed, since things work fine without this patch
> â both Fn-F2 and echoing to /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state â even when I
> start up with init=/bin/sh and test directly from that shell.

If this is BIOS version specific I'm going to be upset, but the general
case behaviour is that rfkill only works on the 901 if you either (a)
pass force=1 to pciehp (which you shouldn't) or (b) have native support
in a driver. My /guess/ is that you've got pciehp loaded, and there's
some kind of awkward race between it and eeepc-laptop.

> input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /class/input/input5
> eeepc: Hotkey init flags 0x41
> (not seen in .28 or .28.1; not checked later .28.*.)

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.

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