Re: [ACPI] If your ACPI-enabled machine does clean shutdown randomly...

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Nov 28 2003 - 11:11:36 EST


Hi!

> > ...then you probably need this one. (One notebook I have here
> > certainly needs it).
> >
> > It seems that acpi likes to report completely bogus value from time to
> > time...
> >
>
> The problem with that patch is that it is filling the logs, but it is
> certainly better than shutting the machine down without warning. I had
> that problem and it took me a few minutes to figure out that it was
> ACPI.

I'm not pushing this patch for inclusion, only its second part.

> However, I didn't have that problem with kernel 2.6.0 test 9, it
> appeared with 2.6.0 test 10 and test 11. I have mailed the list to see
> if there was no patch I could reverse to determine where the problem
> was, but I got no reaction, so I guess I will have to live with it ;)

I have this on rather strange hw, so my tests do not count :-(.

Pavel

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