On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 19:11 -0700, Moore, Robert wrote: > Looking at this patch, I see that it solves a very specific case, namely > the AE_NOT_FOUND exception. However, this is just one of many exceptions > that we may want to ignore. In fact, I wonder if in the general case we > should just ignore all exceptions from _REG methods, other than printing > some kind of message. Yes. This patch only solves the specific case. For example: in the bug 8953, 10237. But if all the exceptions from the _REG methods are ignored, it will be too aggressive. Maybe some potential problems will be hidden. We had better wait for that more people complain the similar bugs. Thanks. > > Bob > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-acpi- > >owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joshua C. > >Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:03 PM > >To: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Ignore AE_NOT_FOUND error of EC _REG method > and > >continue to initialize EC > > > >On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 14:59:26AM +0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> >Subject:ACPI: Ignore AE_NOT_FOUND error of EC _REG method and > continue > >to initialize EC > >> >From: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> > >>Thanks. Queued for test. How urgent is this? Do we need to consider it > >>for .27? > >> > >>-Andi > > > >It will be great if you can put this in .27. > > > >--joshua > >-- > >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 > -- > 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 -- 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
