cmbat related ACPI change between 6.0-release and Nov 10th -stable sources is making Dell laptops to hang

[Vlad GALU]

On 11/20/05, Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin at pldrouin.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I upgraded from 6.0-release to 6.0-stable on Nov 10th, my laptop
> hangs for about 1-2 seconds everytime a battery monitoring tool asks for
> the cmbat battery status. My laptop is a Dell Precision M70 and shares
> its motherboard with many other Dell laptops. I can reproduce the
> problem by running "acpiconf -i loop" or "sysctl hw.acpi.battery.life".
> The problem did not exist with 6.0-release, so it has been caused by
> some code change between -release and Nov 10th sources. Disabling cmbat
> with debug.acpi.disabled avoids the laptop to hang. Does someone know
> what change to cmbat related stuff could be causing this problem?

  I've seen these too, I was running klaptopd.

>
> Thank you!
>
> Pierre-Luc Drouin
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