Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

[Tejun Heo]

Robert Hancock wrote:
> And you're quite right in your comment that we are often too quick to
> blacklist hardware instead of looking into why it really is failing.
> ACPI is one of those areas where we often just need to figure out how to
> be bug-to-bug compatibile with what Windows is doing..

In the spirit of not blacklisting without looking deep into ACPI code,
can somebody familiar with ASL take a look at comment 11 of bug 9320?

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9320#c11

This is libata calling _GTM to find out how the BIOS configured the
device to determine cable type.

Thanks.

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tejun
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