Re: 2.6.25-rc2 Regression Thinkpad acpi

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Mar 14 2008 - 03:30:27 EST


On Thu, Mar 13 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:35:29AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > > You shouldn't need to do anything other than teach userspace to respond
> > > > to them, as they generate the proper KEY_* events. If you are giving the
> > > > AML _OSI(Linux), at least...
> >
> > I'm also seeing regression on my thinkpad z60m where with git tree (tested
> > again with 2 days old git) "thinkvantage" button stopped working (pressing it
> > was previously seen by some userspace kde which run konsole).
> >
> > On 2.6.24 presses are seen.
>
> There were no changes to thinkpad-acpi that should have caused this. So I
> need more data to find out what is happening. Might be a problem elsewhere
> in ACPI, or some bug in thinkpad-acpi.
>
> You DO have /proc/acpi/event, correct? Please send me the debug output of
> thinkpad-acpi when it is loaded with "debug=0xffff" as a parameter (and for
> extra bonus, please compile it with the verbose debug Kconfig option).

Updated to current kernel (saw it had a bunch of acpi fixes), and it now
works correctly! xev sees the events and the mixer sees mute/unmute and
volume up+down events.

So I think we can lay this one to rest, thankfully.

--
Jens Axboe

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