I demand that Matthew Garrett may or may not have written... > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:15:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >> As things stand, this is likely to be a problem for anybody using lenny on >> Eee hardware and upgrading (on their own) to 2.6.29, given that that >> workaround is present in eeepc-acpi-scripts in lenny. >> Anyway, removing that option fixes the problem. > Ok. I'll look into ensuring that these don't collide, but fundamentally the > problem here is distributions using broken options rather than fixing the > problem properly in the first place. Not so much "broken options" as "using the ony available workaround at the time", I think. I have no idea what action other than using this option was taken. >>> BIOS bug. There's an explicit delay in the eee bios for some reason, >>> and I haven't found any straightforward way to avoid it. >> BIOS bug or no, the fact remains that this is (AFAICS) a regression. > You don't get properly working hotkeys otherwise, to the best of my > recollection. I can't say that I've noticed any problems. > There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this somewhere. This one, I think: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12243 -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Kill all extremists! "The name's Borg, James Borg. Prepare to be assimilated, Miss Moneypenny." -- 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
