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

2008-02-11 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 the

Re: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored - PowerEdge 1950

2008-02-11 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Len Brown wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2008 17:09, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: Hello, ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Dell Inc. ACPI: DMI Product Name: PowerEdge

Re: [Bug-fix]:2.6.25-rc0 Generic thermal management [Patch 1/2]: validating input parameters

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:57:06 +0530 Thomas, Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Thomas Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Added sanity checks for interface functions in thermal with other modules such as fan, processor, video etc.. Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

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

2008-02-11 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:55:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:25:36 +0100 Jean Delvare wrote: Andrew, both patches are Acked-by: Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] We already have Signed-off-by:you, which I figure outranks acked-by: ;) Yeah but that wasn't the same me.

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

2008-02-11 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Monday 11 February 2008 09:17:43 Ingo Molnar wrote: no, it does not help - see the attached .config and the crash.log. Thanks Ingo - the cause of the crash is ACPI being disabled on your system for some reason. I can reproduce your crash every time here with acpi=off. The two WMI based

Re: Exposing WMI on Linux

2008-02-11 Thread Anas Nashif
Len, Ok, I will take a deep dive into this and try to provide answers to the questions below, including how to use the data in management frameworks such as CIMOMs. Anas Len Brown wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 16:12, you wrote: Here are some pointers as promised:

[PATCH][drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c] __initdata is not an identifier

2008-02-11 Thread Roel Kluin
sparse complains at drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c:39 with the error: Trying to use reserved word '__attribute__' as identifier Expected ) in function declarator, got .init.data and at drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c:49:38 with the error: undefined identifier 'excluded_id_list' With the patch below

power comsumption low and raise then

2008-02-11 Thread Baeckham
I am running kernel 2.6.24.1 on my Core2Duo Laptop. I trying to measure and lower the power consumption. I noticed that after I logged in and started KDE (3.5.8) the system needs only little power (about 9 W, measured with an external power meter, no battery plugged in). But then usually after

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 regression - suspend to ram

2008-02-11 Thread Venki Pallipadi
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:10:54AM +0100, R. J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 11 of February 2008, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: Hello, Hi, 2.6.25-rc1 takes really long time till it suspends (about 30-40secs, used to be about 5 secs at all) and it is resuming about few minutes. While

acpi_apic_instance=2

2008-02-11 Thread Cacy Rodney
Hi, I ran the kernel with the acpi_apic_instance=2 option and I found that the fan works different. The power supplier was attached to my laptop at the time which means that the fan should rotate continuously like usually, but it starts to work only when the cooling is needed. The computer

Re: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored - PowerEdge 1950

2008-02-11 Thread Len Brown
On Monday 11 February 2008 12:27, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Len Brown wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2008 17:09, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: Hello, ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Dell Inc. ACPI: DMI

Re: [PATCH 1/2] acer-wmi - Fail gracefully if ACPI is disabled

2008-02-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Carlos Corbacho wrote: WMI drivers, like their ACPI counterparts, should also check if ACPI is disabled or not, and bail out if so, otherwise we cause a crash. Shouldn't wmi_has_guid() just return false if ACPI isn't enabled, and the drivers should just then always

[PATCH 2/2] tc1100-wmi - Fail gracefully if ACPI is disabled

2008-02-11 Thread Carlos Corbacho
tc1100-wmi - Fail gracefully if ACPI is disabled From: Carlos Corbacho [EMAIL PROTECTED] WMI drivers, like their ACPI counterparts, should also check if ACPI is disabled or not, and bail out if so, otherwise we cause a crash. Spotted by Ingo Molnar. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho [EMAIL

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

2008-02-11 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Monday 11 February 2008 19:23:39 Randy Dunlap wrote: 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

Re: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored - PowerEdge 1950

2008-02-11 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Len Brown wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2008 17:09, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: Hello, ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Dell Inc. ACPI: DMI Product Name: PowerEdge 1950 ACPI: DMI Product Version: ACPI: DMI Board

[PATCH] CPU_IDLE: Documentation for CPU_IDLE

2008-02-11 Thread Venki Pallipadi
Documentation for cpuidle infrastructure. This patch was submitted once a while back. But, somehow got dropped or never made it upstream. Resending with updates. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.25-rc/Documentation/cpuidle/core.txt

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 regression - suspend to ram

2008-02-11 Thread R. J. Wysocki
On Monday, 11 of February 2008, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: Hello, Hi, 2.6.25-rc1 takes really long time till it suspends (about 30-40secs, used to be about 5 secs at all) and it is resuming about few minutes. While resuming, capslock toggles the capslock led but with few secs delay.

Re: If acpi_osi=Linux works better, pleas e notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org

2008-02-11 Thread Dennis Jansen
On Feb 11, 2008 3:29 AM, Len Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In both BIOS V1.21 and V1.31 it appears to be a no-op. The only way I could imagine it could have an effect is if somethign in SMM is looking at the LINX variable. Based on past lack of Linux awareness from this particular vendor,

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

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:25:36 +0100 Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:40:02 -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

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 regression - suspend to ram

2008-02-11 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Monday, February 11, 2008 3:22 pm Venki Pallipadi wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:10:54AM +0100, R. J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 11 of February 2008, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: Hello, Hi, 2.6.25-rc1 takes really long time till it suspends (about 30-40secs, used to be about 5

[Bug-fix]:2.6.25-rc0 Generic thermal management [Patch 1/2]: validating input parameters

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas, Sujith
From: Thomas Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Added sanity checks for interface functions in thermal with other modules such as fan, processor, video etc.. Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/thermal/thermal.c | 69 +- 1 files changed,

[Bug-fix]:2.6.25-rc0 Generic thermal management:ACPI [Patch 2/2]: buildfix for CONFIG_THERMAL=n

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas, Sujith
From: Thomas Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Conditional dependency is being added for the generic thermal management driver so that ACPI drivers can work without the presence of generic thermal driver. Additional checks are added to fan,video,processor and intel_menlow driver to have the right

dmi info requested...

2008-02-11 Thread Linda Walsh
ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Dell Inc. ACPI: DMI Product Name: Precision WorkStation 690 ACPI: DMI Product Version: ACPI: DMI Board Name: 0MY171 ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: Dell Inc. ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 08/20/2007 ACPI: Please send DMI info above to

[PATCH] ACPI, CPU_IDLE: Add more information about C-states

2008-02-11 Thread Venki Pallipadi
From: Venkatesh Pallipadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add a new sysfs entry under cpuidle states. desc - can be used by driver to communicate to userspace any specific information about the state. This helps in identifying the exact hardware C-states behind the ACPI C-state definition. Idea is to export