Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: asus_acpi, support F2JE model

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

Andrew Morton napsal(a):
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:04:35 +0200 (CEST)
> Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> @@ -706,6 +718,8 @@ static int get_lcd_state(void)
>>  {
>>  	int lcd = 0;
>>  
>> +	BUG_ON(!hotk->methods->lcd_status);
> 
> mutter.  We could just warn-and-bale here.
> 
> Hopefully this is just an is-jiri-sane assertion and it should never happen,
> no matter how busted the BIOS tables are?

Exactly :). Only if somebody changes the code around, so that it is called
with the method unset, it triggers and in that case it's definitely a bug.

Side note, as Danny wrote, there is an asus-laptop driver sitting in -mm,
which supersedes this one -- if you plan to push it upstream in the near
future, don't bother with this patch.

thanks,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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