Andrew Morton wrote: > Did this get fixed yet? > > I have an patch in -mm which I just restored (I had to tempdrop it > because the acpi tree was busted for some time). But it seems to be > old. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10919 is marked "resolved" > but the reporter (Maximilian) seems to think otherwise. 2.6.26.x is, > afaik, still unfixed, as is 2.6.27-rc. > That's correct. I think this specific patch should go in 2.6.27 and 2.6.26-stable. No objections have been raised so far. I still need this patch to make my brightness and volume control keys usable in 2.6.27-rc3. (They auto-repeat fast enough to trigger the bug). This is true even after applying the latest patches from bug 10919 (#25 + #27). I think the 10919 fix makes it harder to reproduce, but it definitely still happens. I guess this is because the polling-driven EC transactions add 1ms delays between each byte. The slower timings leave a window where the buggy behaviour of my EC can make a difference. (It has been seen to clear the "pending event" bit after a single event is read, despite having more events pending). There are more serious consequences of this bug. After a while it can confuse the EC enough to cause lockups or reboots during boot, or after pressing a single hotkey. This bad state is preserved over reboots, even into known good kernels. Fortunately the badness clears when power is removed for a long enough period. For a while I was worried that something had physically burnt out. Thanks Alan -- 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
