On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here's what I came up with - > > 1. I was fighting against EC_FLAGS_QUERY_PENDING. This was used to ignore > multiple successive GPE interrupts and treat them as a single GPE instead. > That's the exact opposite of what we want to do. Let's get rid of it. > > 2. Then we can apply my original patch to fix GPE polling on the Asus EeePC, > by repeatedly querying for GPEs until there are none left. > > 3. Finally, if I'm right then we now know how to handle "GPE interrupt storms". > Some EC's are raising multiple interrupts before we acknowledge them. but > they're just telling us how many events are pending. There's no harm in > that, so we don't ever need to disable GPE interrupts. Let's get rid of > GPE polling mode. (Code mainly stolen from Alexey). Hi, I have seen the "GPE storm" message before but it had no apparent side-effects. Your patches do not seem to change this, although the message is now gone. Thanks! (I have an Acer Aspire 5720 laptop.) Vegard -- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036 -- 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
