PATCH: ecng for 6.x and 7.x

[Nate Lawson]

Yousif Hassan wrote:
> Since you asked for testers on Compaqs, I tried this out on my Compaq
> nx6110 under 6.2.
> 
> W/ this laptop, battery status was always close to correct before, but
> it does appear that your patch improves things somewhat - I no longer
> get 95-99% full being reported when the battery is actually at 100%
> (don't know if that's a coincidence or an intended benefit).  Also, the
> "time remaining" calculations appear to be slightly more accurate, so
> this is great.

Yes, battery and temperature reporting are usually the factors that
would have problems without the patch.  The patch is not intended to fix
anything else.

> This patch does not fix the errors of:
> acpi0: <HP 099C> on motherboard
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
> acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
> 
> (these have never given me too much grief) but that probably wasn't the
> purpose of this patch either. ;)  I don't think that it added any new
> error msgs.  

Those messages can be harmless, but occasionally indicate a buggy BIOS.
 If your devices work, they can be ignored.

> Obviously, suspend/resume and hibernate are still woefully broken on
> this laptop (as is noted in the PRs), so I didn't try those again.  I
> have not tried 7.x (CURRENT) on this laptop either.  If suspend/resume
> gets implemented with the new ACPI code in 7.x I will certainly be
> motivated to upgrade.

Ok.

-Nate