Btw, what are the timings if you just force everything async? I think that worked on yur laptops, no? It would be interestign to know - if only to see what the asymptotic upper bound is for all of this is.. Linus -- 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