Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc6-git] workaround rtc-related acpi table bugs

2007-04-17 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 8:10 pm, Len Brown wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2007 17:14, David Brownell wrote: > > --- g26.orig/drivers/acpi/glue.c2007-04-12 10:56:35.0 -0700 > > +++ g26/drivers/acpi/glue.c 2007-04-12 10:56:35.0 -0700 > > @@ -316,13 +316,19 @@ static int __init ac

Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc6-git] workaround rtc-related acpi table bugs

2007-04-17 Thread Len Brown
On Thursday 12 April 2007 17:14, David Brownell wrote: > This works around a bug seen in some RTC-related ACPI table entries, and > tweaks related diagnostics to follow the ACPI convention. > > The bug prevents misleading boot-time messages: platforms affected by this > bug wrongly report they ca

[patch 2.6.21-rc6-git] workaround rtc-related acpi table bugs

2007-04-12 Thread David Brownell
This works around a bug seen in some RTC-related ACPI table entries, and tweaks related diagnostics to follow the ACPI convention. The bug prevents misleading boot-time messages: platforms affected by this bug wrongly report they can support alarms up to one year in the future, when in fact the l