cmbat related ACPI change between 6.0-release and Nov 10th -stable sources is making Dell laptops to hang

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

I have submitted a new PR about this, I hope someone will be able to fix 
it soon...

Vlad GALU wrote:

>On 11/20/05, Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin at pldrouin.net> wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Since I upgraded from 6.0-release to 6.0-stable on Nov 10th, my laptop
>>hangs for about 1-2 seconds everytime a battery monitoring tool asks for
>>the cmbat battery status. My laptop is a Dell Precision M70 and shares
>>its motherboard with many other Dell laptops. I can reproduce the
>>problem by running "acpiconf -i loop" or "sysctl hw.acpi.battery.life".
>>The problem did not exist with 6.0-release, so it has been caused by
>>some code change between -release and Nov 10th sources. Disabling cmbat
>>with debug.acpi.disabled avoids the laptop to hang. Does someone know
>>what change to cmbat related stuff could be causing this problem?
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>  I've seen these too, I was running klaptopd.
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>>Thank you!
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>>Pierre-Luc Drouin
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