Hi! On Sat 2008-06-07 23:28:08, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Justin Mattock wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Andrew Morton > >This issue just recently started, 2.6.25-rc9 and below > >don't give me > >this message. > > > Yes, the problem which we are fighting here is that > almost all Acer notebooks come with > broken EC. It sends interrupts not regarding the fact > that we already ACKed it. > It comes unnoticed on almost all machines (some notice > laggy keyboard, because it's the same controller after > all and it's busy with sending ACPI interrupts and then > providing same status byte over and over), but on some > machines keystrokes become missing, which is not > tolerable (#9998). But the acer workaround breaks other machines, right? So what about a) use dmi blacklist for acers? or b) if EC storm is detected print message telling 'please pass ec_polled=true if you experience keyboard problems', but do nothing else? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
