On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:51 +0800, Corentin Chary wrote: > >> I got an acpi notify handler. The notify is triggered when I call WMBC(). > >> In this notify handler, I must re-call WMBC (with some other arguments, it won't > >> notify again this time). > >> > >> If I do that, I'll get: > >> [ 176.920391] ACPI Error (dswload-0802): [_T_0] Namespace lookup > >> failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS > >> [ 176.920416] ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name > >> lookup/catalog (20100428/psloop-231) > >> [ 176.920439] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution > >> failed [\AMW0.WMBC] (Node f7023b88), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS > >> [ 176.920469] ACPI: Marking method WMBC as Serialized because of > >> AE_ALREADY_EXISTS error > > > > Could you attach the acpidump output? > > Here it is, and here is the patch I did (I used the workqueue solution > in this one): > > http://git.iksaif.net/?p=acpi4asus.git;a=blobdiff;f=drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-wmi.c;h=725239860bad8d97dabf8b3db4086d6df4b7820b;hp=0d8217d1478028071859ba1a503ba226b3cb33a0;hb=1eac4d6a6fb632314a464e7d52e1dcb1e4780931;hpb=5c5d1a036bb7d38153c6d2102767ef51e5d94ce3 > > (check eeepc_rfkill_notify, it's triggered when the wlan rfkill is > blocked: WMBC is called to disable the wlan card, it send a > notification, the handler is called, the handler want to check the > wlan card status, it calls WMBC again). > Thanks; > Sorry for late reply. WMBC is not an ACPI spec defined method (which always start with "_", _ADR, _DSW etc), the driver should only call ACPI spec defined method. What does this method do? And, I don't see any call to WMBC in eeepc-wmi.c or above patch. Lin Ming -- 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
