On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 16:59 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:25:50AM +0800, Zhao Yakui wrote: > > Subject:ACPI: Ignore AE_NOT_FOUND error of EC _REG method and continue to initialize EC > > From: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > On some broken BIOS the ACPI object in EC _REG method can't be found in > > ACPI namespace, which causes that the AE_NOT_FOUND status code is returned by > > the EC _REG object. In such case the EC device can't be initialized correctly, > > Thanks. Queued for test. How urgent is this? Do we need to consider it > for .27? Not very urgent. It is a workaround patch for some broken BIOS. Of course it is also OK for .27. Windows can work well on the broken BIOS(the error is ignored by windows). Maybe we can also ignore such error and continue to initialize EC. Thanks. > -Andi -- 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
