> Hello,
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> Subject : PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is beyond end of object
> >> Submitter : Hans de Bruin <bruinjm@xs4all.nl>
> >> References :
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9320
> >> Handled-By : Robert Moore <Robert.Moore@intel.com>
> >> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> >> Fu Michael <michael.fu@intel.com>
> >> Patch :
> >>
> >
> > A number of other people are seeing the same thing and Tejun is
> > putting in a blacklist of machines which cannot use libata+acpi.
> > That patch is not yet in any git tree which I pull.
> >
> > AFACIT the machines kepe working OK - there's just some nasty dmesg
> > spew.
> >
> > If any machines _are_ breaking then this could cause real problems
> > and I'd prefer that we either go for a whitelist or arrange to
> > detect the condition and fall back to non-acpi ata.
>
> The pending patchset should make ATA ACPI quite resistant to failures.
