On Wednesday 30 April 2008 11:25:34 Zhao Yakui wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 04:44 -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> > > > > GPE could try to access EC region, so should not be enabled before > > EC is installed > > It is caused by broken bios if GPE method tries to access EC region > before EC is initialized correctly. It is more appropriate to fix this > issue by upgrading bios rather than by the patch. > And this patch will cause some potential problems. 1) Does the BIOS in question work under Windows? 2) Does the system in question require a BIOS upgrade under Windows for this issue? If the answer to both of those is 'no', then the answer is that it's a Linux bug, and a patch of some description is appropriate. Just because there are crappy BIOS's out there, and we'd rather not put in nasty fixes, doesn't mean that we shouldn't. -Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D -- 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
