Re: Regression: ACPI AC driver doesn't work on Toshiba Portege R500 (bisected)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Nov 25 2008 - 04:08:50 EST


On Tuesday, 25 of November 2008, Zhao Yakui wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 21:30 +0800, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, 24 of November 2008, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 09:21 +0800, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Monday, 24 of November 2008, Zhao Yakui wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:37 +0800, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > > On Sunday, 23 of November 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > With current mainline (2.6.28-rc6-git1 as of today) on Toshiba Portege R500 the
> > > > > > > status of the AC adapter is not updated when the adapter is unplugged and
> > > > > > > plugged in. Evidently, /sys/class/power_supply/ADP1/online always contains the
> > > > > > > same value. Interestingly enough, though, if the box is suspended to RAM and
> > > > > > > resumed, the status of the AC adapter is correctly updated, but the value read
> > > > > > > at that time remains in /sys/class/power_supply/ADP1/online until the next
> > > > > > > suspend/resume cycle regardless of what's going on with the AC adapter.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 2.6.27.7 works correctly on this box so the recent EC patches don't seem to
> > > > > > > cause this regression to happen.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Any other ideas?
> > > > > Hi, Rafael
> > > > > Will you please open a new bug at
> > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI and attach the
> > > > > output of acpidump, dmesg, lspci -vxxx?
> > > > > If no ACPI event is reported when AC adapter is unplugged and
> > > > > plugged, the /sys/class interface can't display the correct AC status.
> > > > > Now Rui is working on this issue and the patch is already finished. But
> > > > > it is not sent to Lenb.
> > > >
> > > > Can you give me a link to the patch, please?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Still, it doesn't seem to be related to the problem at hand.
> On the R500 box there exist two issues related with AC driver
> a. no ACPI event is reported by AC adapter. The root cause is that
> the GPE is shared by several devices(Fake Power button, LID device,HS86,
> HS87, ADP1). If the GPE is registered as run_wake type by the fake power
> button, the AC adapter can be reported correctly. If the GPE is
> registered as wake type, the AC adapter can't be reported correctly.
> In the commit the GPE obtained from the _PRW packge of Power button
> device won't be registered as the Fix power button is used instead of
> generic power button.
> b. the /sys/class/power_supply/ADP1/online can't report the correct
> status of AC adapter.But the /proc/acpi/ interface can report the
> correct status even when there is no ACPI event. This can be fixed by
> the patch from Rui.

I see, thanks for the explanation.

The /proc/acpi interface is not compiled in here, so obviously I didn't notice
the issue with it.

Thanks,
Rafael
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