[PATCH][xenial] skip generating unnecessary ACPI exception

Alex Hung alex.hung at canonical.com
Tue Oct 18 19:18:56 UTC 2016


Impact:
  Systems with hybrid graphics with no connectors receive an incorrect exception
  in dmesg

Fix:
  The solution is to check _DOD support before throwing an exception

  The patch is included in upstream and is cherry-picked from Linus's repo.

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634607

Alex Hung (1):
  ACPI / video: skip evaluating _DOD when it does not exist

 drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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2.7.4





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