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I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years

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194 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 11:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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altairprime ◴[18 Sep 25 16:24 UTC] No.45291584[source]▶
The process for shipping a kernel workaround seems to be documented here, for those motivated to patch these ACPI bugs:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-122145.html

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1. CamouflagedKiwi ◴[22 Sep 25 10:14 UTC] No.45331318[source]▶
Wow that takes me back - I went through that maybe 15 years ago to fix something about my laptop at the time. Fortunately haven't needed to since - I assumed that either laptop manufacturers got better at doing this stuff right, or (maybe more likely) Linux got better at interpreting their bugs.