Re: [git pull request] ACPI and driver patches for 2.6.33.merge

[Yinghai Lu]

Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:08:57PM +0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> * Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:28:50AM +0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Linus,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> please pull from:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release
>>>>>>
>>>>> ;..
>>>>>> Shaohua Li (3):
>>>>>> ? ? ?ACPI: Add a generic API for _OSC -v2
>>>>>> ? ? ?ACPI: cleanup pci_root _OSC code.
>>>>>> ? ? ?ACPI: Add platform-wide _OSC support.
>>>>> it seems these three patches broke the _OSC on my intel new systems.
>>>>>
>>>>> revert them fix the problem with AER and pciehp and etc
>>>> can you give more details? I just cleaned up the _OSC code for AER and 
>>>> pciehp, no function changes.
>>> Famous last words ;-)
>>>
>>> Yinghai, i suspect Shaohua needs the kind of info you'd need if you tried to 
>>> fix it: acpidump, before/after debug boot log, a description of what goes bad, 
>>> etc.
>> the so called clean up, change the ret length checking.
>>
>> -       if (!output.length)
>> -               return AE_NULL_OBJECT;
>> -
>>
>> +       /* return buffer should have the same length as cap buffer */
>> +       if (context->ret.length != context->cap.length)
>> +               return AE_NULL_OBJECT;
> Wield BIOS. ACPI spec does mention the return buffer have the same length.
> Does changing the check back make the issue go away?

change to 
if (context->ret.length < context->cap.length)

make AER work, but pciehp still fail.

YH
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