thanks for the focused patch, Alex. If we expect to run into this issue more, perhaps we should add a modparam to help handle debugging and 2.6.33 DMI list maintenance. The param and the DMI list can both go away when we think we have the real fix in 2.6.34. applied. 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