That's funny, I thought we already ignored errors from _CRS on link devices. perhaps the errors we ignore are slightly different -- we ignore an IRQ0, but here the return value isn't formatted correctly -- we should probably follow the same path... -Len On Monday 10 December 2007 03:15, Zhao Yakui wrote: > Hi, All > The following error message can be found in the dmesg of bug8896. > ACPI Error (uteval-0269): Return object type is incorrect > [\_SB_.PCI0.ALKD._CRS] (Node da4b49f0), AE_TYPE > ACPI Error (uteval-0275): Type returned from _CRS was incorrect: > Integer, expected Btypes: 4 [20060707] > ACPI Exception (pci_link-0278): AE_TYPE, Evaluating _CRS [20060707] > And the above error message is related to the following BIOS Bug. > Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized) > { > Return (0x00) > } > > Can we ignore the error about the _CRS method of LINK device and select > IRQ from the possible IRQ list returned by _PRS method? > > Thanks. > > > > Subject: ACPI : Ignore the error about the _CRS of LINK device > >From : Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> > > Ignore the error about the _CRS method of LINK device and select > IRQ from possible IRQ list returned by _PRS method. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8896 > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/acpi/pci_link.c | 13 ++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > Index: linux-2.6.24-rc4/drivers/acpi/pci_link.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.24-rc4.orig/drivers/acpi/pci_link.c > +++ linux-2.6.24-rc4/drivers/acpi/pci_link.c > @@ -385,9 +385,16 @@ static int acpi_pci_link_set(struct acpi > > /* Query _CRS, set link->irq.active */ > result = acpi_pci_link_get_current(link); > - if (result) { > - goto end; > - } > + if (result == ENODEV) { > + /* > + * Ignore the error about the _CRS method of Link device and > + * select IRQ from the Possible IRQ list > + * returned by _PRS method. > + */ > + printk(KERN_WARNING "Ignore error LINK CRS method.\n"); > + link->irq.active = irq; > + result = 0; > + } > > /* > * Is current setting not what we set? > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html