On Saturday, 11 of October 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> No, we discussed this before -- we are outside of the transaction, thus > >> no GPE > >> activity could interfere with ec_check_ibf0. > > > > Ok, this is in the process context and we don't really expect to get an > > interrupt at this point, but what happens if the EC generates an event that's > > not related to any transiaction. Is that guaranteed to never happen? > Interrupt handler in this case can't cause a change to status register, thus our > read of it will not be affected by interrupt. Ok, thanks. Alan, does the patch work for you? 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