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

[Lukas Ertl]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, 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

Thank you, this works!

regards,
le

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