On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 06:42 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Zhao Yakui wrote: > > I think that the problem on the asus-EEEPC can't be resolved really > > by the Alexey's patch. IMO it is only lucky. Do you have opportunity to try whether the Asus Eee PC hotkeys on windows are very fast? > How lucky? It really does go from excruciatingly slow to quite fast on > that laptop. What will happen should my luck fail? What are the odds of > my luck failing? > > > In fact the main problem on Asus-EEEPC is related with the broken EC. > > Before an EC notification event is processed, another EC notification > > event arrives again. > > If EC driver check whether the SCI_EVT bit is set after processing > > one EC notification event, the problem will be resolved. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11089 > > Alan Jenkins already sent a patch about how to fix the issue on the > > Asus-EEEPC. > > I'll cc Alan and see what he makes of this patch. > > > But if the above patch is merged , maybe it will break some laptops. > > Fair enough but can those people with such laptops test the patch too > and report back? Can you say in what form the breakages will take? From > what you are saying it sounds like this patch shouldn't have had any > affect for me but it does. What happens when they try it? What happens > when you try it? > -- 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
