Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.25-rc0

2008-02-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one of these caused a build failure in x86.git overnight randconfig > testing: > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_fan_remove': > fan.c:(.text+0x361d5): undefined reference to > `thermal_cooling_device_unregister' > drivers/built-in.o: In functi

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.25-rc0

2008-02-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Linus, > > please pull from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release one of these caused a build failure in x86.git overnight randconfig testing: drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_fan_remove': fan.c:(.

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.25-rc0 (#2)

2008-02-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
(Carlos Cc:-ed too) * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Len Brown (6): > > ACPI: add newline to printk > > ACPI: build WMI on X86 only > > acer-wmi, tc1100-wmi: select ACPI_WMI > > hm, this new WMI code caused a bootup crash

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Laptop driver documentation changes for 2.6.25

2008-02-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:31:57 + Carlos Corbacho wrote: > The following series implements the proposed creation of > Documentation/laptops, > and the movement of all the laptop driver documentation to this directory. > I've > also taken the opportunity to tack on the acer-wmi documentation in

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Laptop driver documentation changes for 2.6.25

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Saturday 09 February 2008 01:31:57 Carlos Corbacho wrote: > thinkpad-acpi - Move thinkpad-acpi.txt to Documentation/laptops This patch [2/5] doesn't seem to have made it to the list. If it doesn't appear by the end of Saturday, I'll try resending it. -Carlos -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH 0/5] Laptop driver documentation changes for 2.6.25

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
The following series implements the proposed creation of Documentation/laptops, and the movement of all the laptop driver documentation to this directory. I've also taken the opportunity to tack on the acer-wmi documentation in the final patch of this series. Because all the drivers in question go

[PATCH 5/5] acer-wmi - Add documentation

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
Add some initial documentation detailing what acer-wmi is, and how to use it. Update the Kconfig entry with a reference to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/laptops/00-IND

[PATCH 4/5] sonypi - Move sonypi.txt to Documentation/laptops

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
Also update references to sonypi.txt in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/00-INDEX |2 - Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX |2

[PATCH 1/5] Documentation - Create laptops sub-directory

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
There are currently various laptop drivers floating about with no central place for their documentation, which is currently scattered around the top level Documentation/ directory. So, as a first step, lets create a Documentation sub-directory, and update the relevant index files. The work of then

[PATCH 3/5] sony-laptop - Move sony-laptop.txt to Documentation/laptops

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
Also update references to sony-laptop.txt in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/00-INDEX|2 - Documentation/laptops/00-INDE

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] CPUidle: compile fix for non-x86

2008-02-08 Thread Venki Pallipadi
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:40:46PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > Applied w/ Rafael's comment fixes included. > > thanks, > -Len Len pointed out that the last posted version of this patch gave compile error on IA64. So, here goes yet another rewrite of the patch. [PATCH] CPU_IDLE: Compile fix for non

[PATCH 2/2] acer-wmi: Fix backlight on AMW0 (V1) laptops

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
There is some leftover cruft from the old quirk infrastructure that causes us to be unable to set the backlight on older laptops. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c |6 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 de

[PATCH 1/2] tc1100-wmi: Mark as experimental

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
tc1100-wmi has not undergone as much testing as acer-wmi, so it certainly should be marked as experimental as well until we get more user feedback. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/misc/Kconfig |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 inserti

[PATCH 0/2] WMI based driver fixes for 2.6.25

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
The following series is two small fixes to the WMI based drivers: 1) Make tc1100-wmi depend on EXPERIMENTAL, since its code base is completely untested. (This is just a resend of the patch I sent earlier today). 2) Fix setting the backlight on acer-wmi for older Acer laptops. These are both cand

[PATCH 2/4] acpi: change cpufreq tables to per_cpu variables

2008-02-08 Thread Mike Travis
Change cpufreq tables from arrays to per_cpu variables in drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c Based on linux-2.6.git + x86.git Cc: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c | 21 +++-

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - NMI watchdog problem?

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Rankin
And the same thing with 2.6.24.1. Cheers, Chris Linux version 2.6.24.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 8 22:41:10 GMT 2008 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009f

Re: suspend to ram problem

2008-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
> > I wonder if there a way to check that we are realy in real mode ? > > Yes. In real mode bit 0 of the cr0 register should be 0. It is not as simple. There's stuff like "unreal" mode... real mode with 4GB descriptor limits... and similar crazyness.

Re: [PATCH 7/8] ACPI: WMI: Improve Kconfig description

2008-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
On Fri 2008-02-08 01:29:23, Len Brown wrote: > From: Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > As Pavel Machek has pointed out, the Kconfig entry for WMI is pretty > non-descriptive. > > Rewrite it so that it explains what ACPI-WMI is, and why anyone > would want to enable it. > > Many thanks to R

Re: Laptop driver documentation

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 17:28:00 Randy Dunlap wrote: > sony-laptop.txt > sonypi.txt Thanks - I was certain I'd missed a few. > > > I'm not sure this is the best place for these to live. Would it be > > > better to perhaps group all laptop driver documentation in something > > > like Documentat

Re: Laptop driver documentation

2008-02-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:11:14 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 08 Feb 2008, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > > I'm currently working on producing some documentation for acer-wmi, but > > before > > submitting it, I'm wondering where the best place in Documentation/ is for > > it > > to

Re: [PATCH, RFC] HP WMI hotkey driver, RFKill query?

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Thursday 07 February 2008 03:54:24 Len Brown wrote: > > The question is, would exporting the GUID virtual device and using that > > as the parent make more sense? So, in the case of hp-wmi, it only uses > > the GUID 95F24279-4D7B-4334-9387-ACCDC67EF61C, so should we use the > > virtual device as

Re: Laptop driver documentation

2008-02-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > I'm currently working on producing some documentation for acer-wmi, but > before > submitting it, I'm wondering where the best place in Documentation/ is for it > to live? > > The only other laptop driver I've seen so far in Documentation/ is > thi

Re: DMI update - Lenovo X61x - Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler

2008-02-08 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Len Brown wrote: > thanks for the messages. Please open a sighting here: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI please attach the > complete output from dmesg -s64000 and the output from acpidump. Done, bugnumber 9916. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubscri

Laptop driver documentation

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
I'm currently working on producing some documentation for acer-wmi, but before submitting it, I'm wondering where the best place in Documentation/ is for it to live? The only other laptop driver I've seen so far in Documentation/ is thinkpad-acpi, which has thinkpad-acpi.txt in the top level di

Re: ACPI fails on Panasonic Toughbook CF-52 - ACPI Error (exregion-0164): Could not map memory

2008-02-08 Thread Sebastian Smolorz
Len Brown schrieb: On Thursday 07 February 2008 17:41, Sebastian Smolorz wrote: Hi, I am not able to start the kernel on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-52 successfully with ACPI enabled. Only acpi=off or acpi=ht works. ACPI also fails with the latest linux-acpi-2.6 git checkout from today. The atta

[PATCH] tc1100-wmi: Mark as experimental

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
tc1100-wmi has not undergone as much testing as acer-wmi, so it certainly should be marked as experimental as well until we get more user feedback. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/misc/Kconfig |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 inserti

Re: [PATCH 3/8] ACPI: build WMI on X86 only

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 06:29:19 Len Brown wrote: > From: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 06:53:13 Pavel Machek wrote: > I believe selct is the way to go here. What do acer-wmi handle? > Additional buttons? Leds? Temperatures? Fan states? Enabling wireless, bluetooth and 3G; and exposing the mail LED and backlight. tc1100-wmi handles wireless and the jog dia

Re: [PATCH 8/8] acer-wmi, tc1100-wmi: select ACPI_WMI

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 06:29:24 Len Brown wrote: > From: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It is safe for these Kconfig entries to use select because > they select ACPI_WMI, which already has its dependencies > satisfied. This makes Kconfig more user friendly, since > the user selects the dri

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Provide acpi_check_{mem_}region.

2008-02-08 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 23:40 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:32:59 +0200 Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Provide acpi_check_{mem_}region. > > > > Drivers can additionally check against possible ACPI interference by also > > invoking this shortly before they c