Actually,
This case (and others)
seems to be taken care of by Rui's recent patch for 8544, yes?
[PATCH] ACPI: thermal fixup for broken BIOS which has invalid trip points
-Len
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Len Brown wrote:
> Applied.
>
> thanks,
> -Len
>
> On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Warn user about a BIOS bug in recent asus boards
> >
> > Do copy passive devices only if they are valid.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6.24/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.24.orig/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
> > +++ linux-2.6.24/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
> > @@ -440,16 +440,18 @@ static int acpi_thermal_trips_update(str
> > memset(&devices, 0, sizeof(struct acpi_handle_list));
> > status = acpi_evaluate_reference(tz->device->handle, "_PSL",
> > NULL, &devices);
> > - if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
> > - tz->trips.passive.flags.valid = 0;
> > - else
> > + if (ACPI_SUCCESS(status)) {
> > tz->trips.passive.flags.valid = 1;
> > -
> > - if (memcmp(&tz->trips.passive.devices, &devices,
> > - sizeof(struct acpi_handle_list))) {
> > - memcpy(&tz->trips.passive.devices, &devices,
> > - sizeof(struct acpi_handle_list));
> > - ACPI_THERMAL_TRIPS_EXCEPTION(flag, "device");
> > + if (memcmp(&tz->trips.passive.devices, &devices,
> > + sizeof(struct acpi_handle_list))) {
> > + memcpy(&tz->trips.passive.devices, &devices,
> > + sizeof(struct acpi_handle_list));
> > + ACPI_THERMAL_TRIPS_EXCEPTION(flag, "device");
> > + }
> > + } else {
> > + tz->trips.passive.flags.valid = 0;
> > + ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status, "Invalid passiv trip"
> > + " point\n"));
> > }
> > }
> > if ((flag & ACPI_TRIPS_PASSIVE) || (flag & ACPI_TRIPS_DEVICES)) {
> >
> >
> >
> >
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