Re: [HEADSUP] ACPI-CA 20070126 import

From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:50:26 +0100
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:00:41PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> Nate Lawson wrote:
> > Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> >> Jung-uk, good day.
> >>
> >>>> I will import ACPI-CA 20070126 from Intel some time next week.  
> >>>> Current mega-patch against -CURRENT is here:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica-import-20070126.diff.gz
> >>>>
> >>>> (Note: Sorry, I had to gzip(1) it because it was too big.)
> >>>>
> >>>> This patch should fix many ACPI issues in -CURRENT (ACPI-CA 20051021),
> >>>> most notably memory leak.  Full change log for ACPI-CA from the last 
> >>>> import is here:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica_changes_20051021_20070126.txt
> >>>>
> >>>> I believe it is quite stable because I have been using this patch on 
> >>>> my primary desktop and laptop for a while and it was tested on amd64, 
> >>>> i386, and ia64.  However, since the patch is huge, I may have missed 
> >>>> something.  If you find something wrong, please let me know before it 
> >>>> is too late. ;-)
> >> On my Asus A2000D laptop the ACPI patch brought one regression:
> >> the backlight control buttons are stopped to do their job. Before
> >> the patch they used to work, but with some "delay": to actually
> >> increase the brightness of the screen I used to press the "increase
> >> brightness" button once and then push five or six times any other
> >> F-button (volume up/down, mute, change VGA source or the brightness
> >> control button) to get the brightness go up. So I got the feeling
> >> of some queue that was pushed by the pressing of additional buttons.
> >> But now the brightness controls are just stopped to work.
> > 
> > I think it's not the acpi-ca patch, it's the recent acpi_ec.c change.
> > Try it with rev 1.68 of that file.
> > 
> 
> Or better, try with rev 1.71 that I just committed.  Fixed a bug where
> we weren't re-enabling the GPE, which could cause exactly this issue.
> 

After your fixes, my fn button to enable bluetooth works again. Thanks!

- Christian

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