Re: inconsistency in /proc/acpi directory structure?

2007-08-09 Thread Len Brown
On Thursday 09 August 2007 13:45, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-09 19:25]: > > I have to second what Henrique wrote. > > Please avoid /proc/acpi/* whenever you can can. > > We are trying to get rid of it completely, > > but that is only partly done. > > I know

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 -- INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

2007-08-09 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:24:48 -0400 > "Miles Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] >> 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 #7 >> --- >> kacpid/53 is trying to acquire lock: >> (&ec->lock){--

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 8 August 2007 14:24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, 8 August 2007 04:56, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Well, on my box (nx6325) with the appended (experimental) patch applied > > > on top of 2.6.23-rc1 with the patchset from > > > http://www.sisk.pl/ker

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 -- INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

2007-08-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:24:48 -0400 "Miles Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 #7 > --- > kacpid/53 is trying to acquire lock: > (&ec->lock){--..}, at: [] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

2.6.23-rc2-mm1 -- INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

2007-08-09 Thread Miles Lane
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 #7 --- kacpid/53 is trying to acquire lock: (&ec->lock){--..}, at: [] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f but task is already holding lock: (&dpc->work){--..}, at: [] run_workqueue+0xa0/0x

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 9 August 2007 17:06, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > >> Oh... crap, so acpi wants to sync cache on shutdown. I wonder whether > > >> it spins down the disk correctly. Does emergency unload count increase > > >> after each power down? Also, please post the result of 'dmidecode'. > >

Re: inconsistency in /proc/acpi directory structure?

2007-08-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-09 19:25]: > I have to second what Henrique wrote. > Please avoid /proc/acpi/* whenever you can can. > We are trying to get rid of it completely, > but that is only partly done. I know about that and it's a typical kernel hacker argument, but don't for

Re: ACPI Thermal workaround hooks

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 01:58 -0400, Len Brown wrote: > In response to the outcry after I deleted the trip-point > overrides, here is how I think we can work-around > thermal issues in a supportable way. > > In particular, this series should address the issues > on Knut's AOpen Award system here: >

Re: [PATCH 3/6] ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.psv=" bootparam

2007-08-09 Thread Len Brown
Subject: ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.psv=" to override passive trip points From: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "thermal.psv=-1" disables passive trip points for all ACPI thermal zones. "thermal.psv=C", where 'C' is degrees Celsius, overrides all existing passive trip points for all ACPI therm

Re: inconsistency in /proc/acpi directory structure?

2007-08-09 Thread Len Brown
Hi Nico, I have to second what Henrique wrote. Please avoid /proc/acpi/* whenever you can can. We are trying to get rid of it completely, but that is only partly done. I really resist changes to /proc/acpi/* because I consider it legacy and would rather the effort be focused on the new sysfs inter

[ACPI] toshiba_acpi bluetooth patch

2007-08-09 Thread kernellist
Hi, Some Toshiba Portege laptops needs bluetooth to be enabled, before it can be used. Since some time there are some patches to do it. (see: http://glozer.net/dynabook/dynabook.html) I made some cleanings and make it work with recent kernels. See attatchment - any comments are welcome! regard

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 15:16 +, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > firmwarekit-discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (added to CC list) > > > see: http://linuxfirmwarekit.org/ > > > > > > But if I understand this problem right, this won't be easy. > > > The ACPI tables are just parsed with system ("iasl

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > firmwarekit-discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (added to CC list) > > see: http://linuxfirmwarekit.org/ > > > > But if I understand this problem right, this won't be easy. > > The ACPI tables are just parsed with system ("iasl ...") and syntactical > > errors/warnings are printed out. > > I also

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >> Oh... crap, so acpi wants to sync cache on shutdown. I wonder whether > >> it spins down the disk correctly. Does emergency unload count increase > >> after each power down? Also, please post the result of 'dmidecode'. > > > > I know that my Compaq X1000-series laptop does do some kin

Re: inconsistency in /proc/acpi directory structure?

2007-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
(here's the email I sent Nico but which didn't arrive anywhere. CCs/BCCs added to resend it to everyone) On Mon, 06 Aug 2007, Nico Golde wrote: > I recently implemented libacpi (http://www.ngolde.de/libacpi.html) > to have some kind of provider for all these acpi applets out > there. What makes m

Re: inconsistency in /proc/acpi directory structure?

2007-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Nico Golde wrote: > But even checking for an empty directory is not enough since > there comes ibm-acpi (maybe others). As far as ibm-acpi goes, you can do me a BIG favour, and pretend it has nothing in procfs. > With working fan and usage of ibm-acpi you also get an empty

inconsistency in /proc/acpi directory structure?

2007-08-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, I wrote some shared library to get ACPI values for user space acpi tools and came to a problem. I check if an ACPI feature exists by checking for its directory, e.g. /proc/acpi/fan. The problem with this is, that this gets created when the specific module is loaded, so if you load the modu

dmi decode - dell laptop (inspiron 1501)

2007-08-09 Thread Dacian Stanciu
I hope it helps you. keep up the good work Bye # dmidecode 2.9 SMBIOS 2.4 present. 37 structures occupying 1293 bytes. Table at 0x000F0470. Handle 0xDA00, DMI type 218, 131 bytes OEM-specific Type Header and Data: DA 83 00 DA B0 00 92 1B 07 02 00 7D 00 00 00 00

Re: fan problem on new mainboard

2007-08-09 Thread Zhang Rui
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 10:54 +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > hi folks, > > i got a new mainboard, an asrock conroe1333 (intel socket 775 thing). so > far everything is nice except the cpu fan, which is always spinning at > top speed. from what i understand, it should be possible to change this > with

Re: ACPI on Averatec 2370

2007-08-09 Thread Joachim Deguara
On Thursday 09 August 2007 01:52:37 Frank Hale wrote: > I have the latest BIOS update for my laptop which is buggy I suppose. > There has been only one update this year if my memory serves me > correctly. Is there any hope to fix this or am I at the mercy of the > hardware vendor which apparenlty d

fan problem on new mainboard

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Lemmen
hi folks, i got a new mainboard, an asrock conroe1333 (intel socket 775 thing). so far everything is nice except the cpu fan, which is always spinning at top speed. from what i understand, it should be possible to change this with acpi, or even make it spin depending on the cpu temperature. (right