The patch titled ACPI disabled due to DMI failure or blacklisted year should be noted, as is done with other ACPI blacklisting has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was acpi-disabled-due-to-dmi-failure-or-blacklisted-year-should-be-noted-as-is-done-with-other-acpi-blacklisting.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ACPI disabled due to DMI failure or blacklisted year should be noted, as is done with other ACPI blacklisting From: "Anthony Godshall, Ampro Computers, Inc." <agodshall@xxxxxxxxx> IMHO, ACPI disabled due to DMI failure or blacklisted year should be noted, as is done with other ACPI blacklisting. This will help people troubleshoot when ACPI isn't working. Status quo is a mysterious "ACPI Disabled" message without explanation on BIOS that implements ACPI but not DMI. This is actually fairly common on embedded x86 boards. Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/blacklist.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/blacklist.c~acpi-disabled-due-to-dmi-failure-or-blacklisted-year-should-be-noted-as-is-done-with-other-acpi-blacklisting drivers/acpi/blacklist.c --- a/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c~acpi-disabled-due-to-dmi-failure-or-blacklisted-year-should-be-noted-as-is-done-with-other-acpi-blacklisting +++ a/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c @@ -79,11 +79,17 @@ static int __init blacklist_by_year(void { int year = dmi_get_year(DMI_BIOS_DATE); /* Doesn't exist? Likely an old system */ - if (year == -1) + if (year == -1) { + printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "no DMI BIOS year, " + "acpi=force is required to enable ACPI\n" ); return 1; + } /* 0? Likely a buggy new BIOS */ - if (year == 0) + if (year == 0) { + printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "DMI BIOS year==0, " + "assuming ACPI-capable machine\n" ); return 0; + } if (year < CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR) { printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "BIOS age (%d) fails cutoff (%d), " "acpi=force is required to enable ACPI\n", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from agodshall@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html