On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Justin Mattock wrote: >> >> Interesting, over here I'm using a Macbook Pro ATI chipset. I'm not >> experiencing things like missing keys or anything of that nature. >> but am concerned with what might happen to the hardware in the long >> run. As for the patches I did apply those, >> and it did give me a better idea of what is happening., but just to >> get a right info, when ACPI: EC: gpe storm detected message appears >> does it disable interrupt mode for that moment and then go back to it >> original state, or is it once the gpe storm is triggered the interupt >> mode is disabled until a reboot is performed. from looking at the data >> from the patches that I used from here it looks like something in the >> system triggers that message, but then after a few seconds goes back >> to its original state, until another storm is detected. >> I don't have a problem with this message if it's triggering and then >> returning to it's original state until another storm triggers this >> message again, but I am concerned with the message being triggered, >> and then the system is stuck in that mode until a reboot.(but if this >> is O.K. for the system then that's cool too). > > If interrupt storm from EC is detected EC interrupt will be disabled > permanently. > EC driver then starts to poll hardware for events in half-second interval, > so it is > still fully functional, but may be there is going to be impact on power > consumption, etc. > > Regards, > Alex. > Hmmm, power consumption., well that's not bad, but maybe I should be concerned with my battery, maybe I should remove my battery, and use it only if I need be., just to be on the safe side. (apple already replaced this one for free, without apple care, so I don't think they want to do that again.) regards; -- Justin P. Mattock -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
