On Friday, 26 of September 2008, Zhao Yakui wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 18:52 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > > > It is easier and faster to do transaction directly from interrupt context > > > rather than waking control thread. > > > Also, cleaner GPE storm avoidance is implemented. > Hi, Sitsofe > I think that the problem on the asus-EEEPC can't be resolved really > by the Alexey's patch. IMO it is only lucky. > 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. > > But if the above patch is merged , maybe it will break some laptops. > On my laptop when issuing the query command, a non-zero query event is > returned but it can't be processed.(There is no corresponding ACPI _Qxx > object). At the same time the SCI_EVT bit won't be cleared. In such case > OS can't exit the function of acpi_ec_query_handler, which causes that > the acpid kernel thread can't work well. So does the patch break your box as a result? Rafael -- 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
