Hi, Unfortunately there are a few problems with ACPI power resources management that should be fixed by the following series of patches. Patch [1/13] is necessary to fix a recent regression in the mainline kernel and patch [2/13] also should go into 2.6.37 IMO. The remaining patches are not so urgent, but they all are necessary. [1/13] - Fix regression if fan resume resulting from the rework of power resources reference counting. [2/13] - Do not reference count power resources that can't be turned on. [3/13] - Rework acpi_power_get_inferred_state() so that it doesn't update device->power.state behind the caller's back. [4/13] - Introduce functions for handling lists of power resources. [5/13] - Introduce helper function for reference counting power resources for a given device and power state. [6/13] - Introduce function for reading device power state without modifying the device object. [7/13] - Add function for device power state initialization. [8/13] - Add function for updating device power state in a consistent way. [9/13] - Register acpi_power_driver before scanning the root of the namespace. [10/13] - Add power resource ACPI device objects as soon as they are needed. [11/13] - Rework the management of ACPI power resources in the ACPI fan driver. [12/13] - Drop acpi_bus_get_power() that has no users now. [13/13] - Drop acpi_power_nocheck which isn't necessary any more. The patches have been tested on my HP nx6325 (which is the only machine using ACPI power resources I have) and a combo patch functionally equivalen to this series has been tested by Maciej Rutecki. Please apply. Thanks, Rafael -- 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