Re: [REGRESSION] 4.17 failed to probe ACPI PnP

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jun 19 2018 - 04:28:49 EST


On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there seems a regression regarding the probe of ACPI PnP devices.
> The detailed logs are found in openSUSE bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1098074

But that's on this particular machine, not in general, right?

At least I don't see this on any of the systems in my office.

> In short, since 4.17, the laptop keyboard is lost on ASUS K501UW.
> Comparing the kernel messages and other logs indicates that the
> complete lost of ACPI PnP devices:
>
> On 4.16:
> [ 0.390244] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 9 devices
>
> On 4.17:
> [ 0.263266] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 0 devices
>
> ... and this leads to the failure of PS/2 keyboard detection due to
> the missing PNP030b entry as a result.
>
> Any hints for debugging this are appreciated.

It looks like this may be related to the ACPICA changes that went in
during the 4.17 cycle.

I would try 4.18-rc1 as there is an ACPICA fix in it that may be
related to this in theory. If that doesn't help, I'd focus on the
ACPICA changes.

Thanks,
Rafael