The following reply was made to PR port-i386/37515; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/37515 (acpibat in 4.9.42 Generic Kernel produces
	error messages in console on some laptops)
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:14:39 +0100

 Can you try the latest version in HEAD? i've changed the code to (a)
 more aggressively check the EC state to compensate for missing interrupt
 notification and (b) drop the retry attempts as they create more issues
 than they fix.
 
 Joerg