if you send me a checkpatch.pl clean version, I'll put it in the acpi-test tree. It is too late to test this broadly before the 2.6.30 merge window closes, but who knows, maybe 2.6.31 and a .stable backport if it turns out to be wonderful... thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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