linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.25-rc7 001/001] ACPI: workaround for buggy BIOS to ignore error LINK CRS method

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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:23:15 +0200
From:	NoWhereMan <uncommonnonsense@...il.com>
To:	"Zhao Yakui" <yakui.zhao@...el.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	"Len Brown" <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25-rc7 001/001] ACPI: workaround for buggy BIOS to ignore error LINK CRS method

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@...el.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

>  > That patch is about four months old.  Hopefully there was a reason why we
>  > dodn't proceed with it?
>  It seems that the system can work after applying the patch.
>  But the patch depends on the returned result(-ENODEV).
>  > if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
>  >               ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status, "Evaluating _CRS"));
>  >                result = -ENODEV;
>   >               goto end;
>   >       }
>  Now I am writing another workaround patch about this problem.

I'll try to help, testing the new patch on my system
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