4.9-RELEASE, ACPI and DELL Latitude D600

[Andre Grosse Bley]

> > Ah, the problem is that ACPI tries to sleep from a task, which is not safe
> > to do.  This is not easy to fix. :(
> 
> Actually, it may not be too hard.  In current, ACPI uses its own thread
> to run the tasks in, so stable would need the same sort of thing.
> Basically, ACPI needs to start up a kproc and needs to have its own
> taskqueue again that uses this kproc for its execution context.

So - as I am not a experienced kernel hacker - there is no easy solution
for me to 'fix' this panic? Should I open a PR?

	Greetings,
		Andre