Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: acpi: Ignore GPIO 11 interrupt on Acer Nitro V 16S AI

From: Andy Shevchenko

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 08:58:35 EST


On Fri, Oct 02, 2026 at 05:17:02PM +0500, Abduvaliy Abdulazizov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2026, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2026 at 03:18:00PM +0500, Abduvaliy Abdulazizov wrote:
> > > On the Acer Nitro V 16S AI (ANV16S-41) the internal USB camera
> > > (0408:4035) works on Windows but never shows up on Linux.
> >
> > While this all sounds legit, I'm worrying that the pin can be used for
> > something more. For the record, can you share the DSDT table (or entire
> > `acpidump -o NitroV16S.dat` file) via some file exchanger so we may see
> > that?
>
> Sure, here is the full acpidump (BIOS V1.14):
> https://github.com/abduvaliy-engineer/acer-nitro-anv16s-camera-fix/releases/download/acpidump-v1.14/NitroV16S.dat
>
> What I found when going through it:
>
> - Pin 0x0B shows up only once, in \_SB.GPIO._AEI, as
> GpioInt (Edge, ActiveLow, ExclusiveAndWake, PullNone). Its _EVT case
> only does M000 (0x390B), with no Notify.
>
> - There is no GpioIo for it, and none of the M009/M010/M011 GPIO helpers
> are called with 0x0B. The only static mapping of the GPIO bank in the
> DSDT (OperationRegion GSMG at 0xFED81500) has fields for pins 23 and
> 40 only.
>
> - The PCIe reset pins in the NVMe SSDTs (RSTM) are computed at runtime
> from a platform table. Pin 11 is not one of them on this machine: it
> reads low after Linux takes it, and both NVMe drives keep working.
>
> So as far as I can see, the firmware drives the pin as an output for the
> camera and lists it in _AEI without a real handler.

Thanks for sharing. I will wait for Mika's tag and apply if he has no
objections.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko