[acpi-jp 2974] dsmthdat.c broke ACPI battery status

[Don Lewis]

On  8 Jan, Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote:
>> I just wanted to report that revision 1.1.1.21 of dsmthdat.c (the fix for
>> Dell laptops) broke ACPI battery status on my ThinkPad:
>>
>> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.GBST] (Node 0xc440d2c0), AE_AML_INTERNAL
>> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.BAT0._BST] (Node 0xc44112c0), AE_AML_INTERNAL
>>
>> Reverting to 1.1.1.20 fixes this again.
> 
> I'm using this patch.  I won't commit it until we verify it's a fix and
> not just a workaround.
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791

This fixes battery status on my R40.