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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:44:59 +0100
From:      Andre Grosse Bley <gandalf-hackers@nm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 4.9-RELEASE, ACPI and DELL Latitude D600
Message-ID:  <20031112104458.GA94744@nm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031106134755.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.20031106112514.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <XFMail.20031106134755.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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> > Ah, the problem is that ACPI tries to sleep from a task, which is not safe
> > to do.  This is not easy to fix. :(
> 
> Actually, it may not be too hard.  In current, ACPI uses its own thread
> to run the tasks in, so stable would need the same sort of thing.
> Basically, ACPI needs to start up a kproc and needs to have its own
> taskqueue again that uses this kproc for its execution context.

So - as I am not a experienced kernel hacker - there is no easy solution
for me to 'fix' this panic? Should I open a PR?

	Greetings,
		Andre



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