Dear Ben Hutchings,
Dear kernel developers,
First I want to thank you all for your amazing work.
It moves me to see how you all work on this humongous project so successfully
and coordinatedly.
I am not a kernel developer and I watch in awe how you accomplish all this.
Nonetheless, I plead for rolling back to the old test
if (eeepc_wmi_check_atkd()) {...}
in eeepc_wmi_probe() that was in effect until kernel 4.6.7
rather than the new test
if (acpi_dev_found(EEEPC_ACPI_HID)) {
used as of kernel 4.7.x
because the new test prevents loading eeepc-wmi
while the old one loads it,
just as Oscon has described.
I own seven boxes Eee PC 1001PXD
https://www.asus.com/Laptops/Eee_PC_1001PXD/
and want to prepare them with Debian 9 and give them to people for free
who cannot or do not want to afford to buy a new laptop.
Also I want to encourage improving the current drivers for Asus EeePCs.
In order to support your work, I offer to send one or two of my boxes
for testing purposes to kernel and driver developers.
And, of course, I am willing to desribe all the relevant bugs
that I have encountered on these boxes in sufficient detail whenever required.
Please let me know how else I can support.
And, of course, I will pay the postage.
Cheers, and again thank you for your awesome work!
Roland
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:03:26 +0100 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
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>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Oscon <os...@upcmail.hu>
> To: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Re: Bug#876303: linux-source-4.9 kernel regression eeepc-wmi
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:12:55 +0200
> Message-id: <1944222.XpyFCHbg37@osconsfortress>
>
> A következÅ‘t Ãrta ekkor: 2017. szeptember 24. 21:21:58
> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> >
> > On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 20:22 +0200, Oscon wrote:
> > > Package: linux-source-4.9
> > >
> > > Version: >=4.9.25
> > >
> > > eeepc-wmi doesn't work with my Eee PC netbook (Asus X101) after kernel
> > > upgrade from 3.14.79 to 4.9.y. So some Eee WMI hotkeys don't work with
> > > the new kernel.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > I have to use eeepc-wmi.
> > >
> > > The patch "Use acpi_dev_found() " is the cause of the problem.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > How did you determine this? It doesn't appear to make any functional
> > change.
>
> Hello !
>
> Thank you for the answer.
>
> ------------
> I am not developer, sorry. :-(
>
> But I can write my experience details:
>
> The problem is - a bit :-) - complicated / or chaotic ? :-) /
>
> eeepc_wmi driver doesn't load any more in asus x101 netbook with the 'use
> acpi_dev_found()' patch.
>
> No matter there is in module or compiled in the kernel. Always:
>
> [ 1.043620] eeepc_wmi: Found legacy ATKD device (ASUS010)
> [ 1.043632] eeepc_wmi: WMI device present, but legacy ATKD device is also
> present and enabled
> [ 1.043650] eeepc_wmi: You probably booted with acpi_osi="Linux" or
> acpi_osi="!Windows 2009"
> [ 1.043662] eeepc_wmi: Can't load eeepc-wmi, use default acpi_osi
> (preferred) or eeepc-laptop
>
> It seems eeepc-wmi does see the acpi keyboard device, and don't load any
> more.
> I did try with combination: eeepc_wmi compiled in kernel, and atkbd in
> module,
> but eeepc_wmi didn't load with same message.
>
