Re: one more ACPI Error (utglobal-0125): Unknown exception code:0xFFFFFFEA [Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3]

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 22:25:17 EST


> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 09:25 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> If we decide that "try HID first, then try CID" is the right thing,
>> I think we should figure out how to make that work. Maybe that
>> means extending the driver model somehow.
> Don't think it's easy, especially no other bus needs it I guess.

I agree it's probably not easy, but I think having the right
semantics is more important than fitting cleanly into the
driver model. But I know that without code, I'm just venting
hot air, not contributing to a solution.

How's the ACPI driver model integration going, anyway? I seem
to recall some patches a while back, but I don't think they're
in the tree yet.

> Do we really need the memory hotplug device returns pnp0c01/pnp0c02?
> What's the purpose?

I don't know. But I think Keith already determined that a BIOS change
is not likely. I hate to ask for BIOS changes like this because it
feels like asking them to avoid broken things in Linux.

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