Re: BUG 2.6.14.2 : ACPI boot lockup

From: Jean Tourrilhes
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 21:25:13 EST


On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:12:43PM -0800, Rajesh Shah wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:06:09PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >
> > This patch does not look right to me, but I must admit I have
> > no clue about what the code is doing. Can you confirm you want me to
> > try this ?
> >
> Yes, please try this since this is known to fix at least a couple
> of other machines (see
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=116763)

Ok, I tried it. It works. Kernel boot fine, Pcmcia card works,
X works.
I double checked with /proc/cmdline that I did not have the
noacpi stuff.
Works for me.

> The original acpi code ignored errors related to matching an
> acpi device to an acpi driver. I changed that behavior to flag
> an error, and this was wrong. An acpi device listed in the
> namespace should not be required to have a driver for it to
> be added to the acpi list.

Well, your code is running well before any driver are
loaded... Even most drivers compiled-in are initialised later...

> thanks,
> Rajesh

Jean

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