From 05131ecc99ea9da7f45ba3058fe8a2c1d0ceeab8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Venkatesh Pallipadi Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:31:00 -0400 Subject: [ACPI] Avoid BIOS inflicted crashes by evaluating _PDC only once Linux invokes the AML _PDC method (Processor Driver Capabilities) to tell the BIOS what features it can handle. While the ACPI spec says nothing about the OS invoking _PDC multiple times, doing so with changing bits seems to hopelessly confuse the BIOS on multiple platforms up to and including crashing the system. Factor out the _PDC invocation so Linux invokes it only once. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5483 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c') diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c index 70d8a6ec0920..1915c377bfc6 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c @@ -1014,8 +1014,6 @@ int acpi_processor_power_init(struct acpi_processor *pr, } } - acpi_processor_power_init_pdc(&(pr->power), pr->id); - acpi_processor_set_pdc(pr, pr->power.pdc); acpi_processor_get_power_info(pr); /* -- cgit v1.2.2