RE: [ACPI] RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500

[Yu, L. <lum...@in...>]

>>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>
>Here is the bug info.  Note that Luming's patch does NOT fix the
problem
>but just silences the warnings.  If you use the ASL patch I have
attached
>that adds RefOf/DerefOf (credit Mark Santcroos), the problems are
fixed.
>You can also revert dsmthdat.c back to what it was pre-0619 and that
also
>fixes the problem.
>
>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1728
>
>The issue is, ACPI-CA is still not getting its argument-passing right
>after moving away from "always copy" semantics.

Please try patch filed at  http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1766