ACPI: EC acpi-ecdt-uid-hack
On some boxes ecdt uid may be equal to 0, so do not test for uids equality,
so that fake handler will be unconditionally removed to allow loading the
real one.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6111
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
index eee0864..e6381687 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -991,7 +991,6 @@
int result = 0;
acpi_status status = AE_OK;
union acpi_ec *ec = NULL;
- unsigned long uid;
ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE("acpi_ec_add");
@@ -1014,10 +1013,9 @@
acpi_evaluate_integer(ec->common.handle, "_GLK", NULL,
&ec->common.global_lock);
- /* If our UID matches the UID for the ECDT-enumerated EC,
- we now have the *real* EC info, so kill the makeshift one. */
- acpi_evaluate_integer(ec->common.handle, "_UID", NULL, &uid);
- if (ec_ecdt && ec_ecdt->common.uid == uid) {
+ /* XXX we don't test uids, because on some boxes ecdt uid = 0, see:
+ http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6111 */
+ if (ec_ecdt) {
acpi_remove_address_space_handler(ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT,
ACPI_ADR_SPACE_EC,
&acpi_ec_space_handler);
@@ -1062,7 +1060,6 @@
int result = 0;
acpi_status status = AE_OK;
union acpi_ec *ec = NULL;
- unsigned long uid;
ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE("acpi_ec_add");
@@ -1088,10 +1085,9 @@
acpi_evaluate_integer(ec->common.handle, "_GLK", NULL,
&ec->common.global_lock);
- /* If our UID matches the UID for the ECDT-enumerated EC,
- we now have the *real* EC info, so kill the makeshift one. */
- acpi_evaluate_integer(ec->common.handle, "_UID", NULL, &uid);
- if (ec_ecdt && ec_ecdt->common.uid == uid) {
+ /* XXX we don't test uids, because on some boxes ecdt uid = 0, see:
+ http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6111 */
+ if (ec_ecdt) {
acpi_remove_address_space_handler(ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT,
ACPI_ADR_SPACE_EC,
&acpi_ec_space_handler);
