Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

[Alexey Starikovskiy]

Meelis Roos wrote:
>>> Subject         : New ACPI error/warning with Linus' latest GIT
>>> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/395
>>> Last known good : ?
>>> Submitter       : Ismail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Caused-By       : ?
>>> Handled-By      : ?
>>> Status          : unknown
>> This started to happen after the second ACPI merge which was for 2.6.23-rc2.
> 
> It appeared after new Embedded Controller code was merged into ACPI. It 
> might as well be just a debug message or a remainder to add support for 
> new queries (whatever these are), but I do not know. The message itself 
> seems harmless.
> 
This _is_ a debug message. EC asks us to perform query which was never defined in DSDT.
Previously I thought it would be rare error report, but now it seems that every machine
has at least one unregistered query... It is not a functional regression, as we just 
ignored errors from query execution before.

Len already has a patch to remove this printk.

Regards,
	Alex.
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