RE: kacpi_notify?

2006-07-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Starikovskiy, Alexey Y wrote: I'm terribly sorry that my patch broke on your machine. May I ask you to send me or attach to #5534 output of acpidump from this machine? I'll send it in another email, since I already generated it for Len ;) Do you think that the whole

Re: kacpi_notify?

2006-07-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: (apparently about 300 of those processes, at which point the machine just hangs, because even root cannot start any new processes, and I couldn't actually get to debug this at all). With ACPI debugging, I notice that it finally dies due to ACPI

RE: kacpi_notify?

2006-07-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: I've got a hundred-odd commits to go, but the next bisection test happens to be the parent of my merge (your merge linus into release branch merge: ae6c859b7dcd708efadf1c76279c33db213e3506), so if I'm right, I'd expect that to be a bad tree.

RE: kacpi_notify?

2006-07-12 Thread Brown, Len
Likely related to bugzilla-5534 -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-acpi in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

RE: kacpi_notify?

2006-07-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Brown, Len wrote: Likely related to bugzilla-5534 b8d35192c55fb055792ff0641408eaaec7c88988 Well, that one certainly looks likely. Any reason to not just revert it? The fundamental problems that it introduces are obviously much worse than the fix.

RE: kacpi_notify?

2006-07-12 Thread Brown, Len
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Brown, Len wrote: Likely related to bugzilla-5534 b8d35192c55fb055792ff0641408eaaec7c88988 Well, that one certainly looks likely. Any reason to not just revert it? The fundamental problems that it introduces are obviously much worse than the fix. If reverting it

RE: kacpi_notify?

2006-07-12 Thread Len Brown
Here's a suggested revert. Please try this smaller revert to just osl.c. (it builds and boots for me) It reverts acpi_os_queue_for_execution() to exactly as it was in 2.6.17, except it changes the name to acpi_os_execute() to match ACPICA 20060512. (yes, it is okay we ignore the 1st parameter,