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Message-ID: <1272059201.1594.10.camel@laptop>
Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:46:41 -0500
From:	Jerone Young <jerone.young@...onical.com>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...onical.com>
Cc:	lenb@...nel.org, colin.king@...onical.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for multiple
 Lenovo ThinkPads

Apparently I made a mistake. Not realizing that  DMI_MATCH does not do
an exact match.

Patch looks good.

On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 16:41 -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
> You made a small mistake..point out below.
> 
> **mumble** .. still not a fan of quirk tables when a bios coming out to
> resolve this issue is coming out..one out for T410 came out yesterday.
> 
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:20 -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > Multiple Lenovo ThinkPad models with Intel Core i5/i7 CPUs can
> > successfully suspend/resume once, and then hang on the second s/r
> > cycle.
> > 
> > We got confirmation that this was due to a BIOS defect. The BIOS
> > did not properly set SCI_EN coming out of S3. The BIOS guys
> > hinted that The Other Leading OS ignores the fact that hardware
> > owns the bit and sets it manually.
> > 
> > In any case, an existing DMI table exists for machines where this
> > defect is a known problem. Lenovo promise to fix their BIOS, but
> > for folks who either won't or can't upgrade their BIOS, allow
> > Linux to workaround the issue.
> > 
> > Confirmed by numerous testers in the launchpad bug that using
> > acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable fixes the issue. We add the machines
> > to acpisleep_dmi_table[] to automatically enable this workaround.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15407
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/532374
> > 
> > Cc: stable@...nel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@...onical.com>
> > ---
> > We want to get this patch upstream so that we can get it into
> > -stable. Matthew Garrett's patch titled "Fall back to manually
> > changing SCI_EN" is the plan for dealing with future platforms
> > that will likely have this same BIOS bug.
> > 
> > v1 -> v2:
> > 	- remove separate X201s entry, as the X201 entry will match it too
> > ---
> >  sleep.c |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
> > ---
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sleep.c b/drivers/acpi/sleep.c
> > index f74834a..317794f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/sleep.c
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/sleep.c
> > @@ -450,6 +450,38 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata acpisleep_dmi_table[] = {
> >  		},
> >  	},
> >  	{
> > +	.callback = init_set_sci_en_on_resume,
> > +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad T410",
> > +	.matches = {
> > +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> > +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad T410"),
> > +		},
> > +	},
> > +	{
> > +	.callback = init_set_sci_en_on_resume,
> > +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad T510",
> > +	.matches = {
> > +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> > +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad T510"),
> > +		},
> > +	},
> > +	{
> > +	.callback = init_set_sci_en_on_resume,
> > +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad W510",
> > +	.matches = {
> > +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> > +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad W510"),
> > +		},
> > +	},
> > +	{
> > +	.callback = init_set_sci_en_on_resume,
> > +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad X201[s]",
> > +	.matches = {
> > +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> > +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad X201"),
> 
> The X201s identifies it's self as an X201s .. So you would need two
> separate entries.
> 
> Here is dmidecode data from a X201s:
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45050202/dmidecode
> 
> 
> > +		},
> > +	},
> > +	{
> >  	.callback = init_old_suspend_ordering,
> >  	.ident = "Panasonic CF51-2L",
> >  	.matches = {
> > --
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