On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:05:28 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > There is a problem in the quirk tables used by tpacpi_is_fw_known() and > > tpacpi_check_outdated_fw(), which causes outdated BIOSes that are lacking > > the EC firmware ID DMI field to never match. > > > > This breaks module loading on, e.g. a T23 with outdated BIOS, and the > > module will refuse to load unless the "force_load=1" parameter is given. > > > > Fix the quirk tables so that they can also match the outdated BIOSes, > > which in turn will both fix the module loading, and also warn the user > > that he is using outdated firmware and should upgrade. > > > > This fixes a serious regression, introduced by commit > > e675abafcc0df38125e6e94a9ba91c92fe774f52, "thinkpad-acpi: be more strict > > when detecting a ThinkPad". > > > > Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14597 > > > > Reported-by: Paul Kimoto <kimoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Tested-by: Paul Kimoto <kimoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This patch is not in -rc8. Andrew, Len, can one of you please send it to > Linus for merge in mainline? It will hit enough users that I'd really > prefer it to not wait for a -stable release. > Yes, I'll send it in. -- 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
