Bug#661581: Fails to resume from suspend on ASUS P67-M mainboard

[Arne Nordmark <nordmark@mech.kth.se>]

2012-03-01 16:31, Jonathan Nieder skrev:
> tags 661581 = upstream
> forwarded 661581 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1240187/focus=52118
> quit
>
> Arne Nordmark wrote:
>
> > Some newer ASUS mainboards fails to resume from suspend on
> > Linux. Instead the computer immediately restarts a few times, and then
> > does a full boot. This has been traced to an ACPI problem, and a
> > symtom is the kernel messages:
> [...]
> > ACPI Error: [RAMB] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20110623/psargs-359)
> > ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, Could not execute arguments for [RAMW] (Region) (20110623/nsinit-349)
> >
> > When applying the commit
> > [...];h=8931d9ea78848b073bf299594f148b83abde4a5e
> > to the current kernel sources from backports, the error messages
> > disappears, and resume functionality is restored.
>
> Thanks.  Was this a regression?

No. The same problem is found in the squeeze kernel and in 2.6.39 from 
backports, so I think it is safe to say that this has never worked before.

Thanks
Arne

> Passed upstream.  Hopefully the fix can be part of the 3.2.y series
> some time soon, so everyone benefits from it.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan