On Thursday, August 04, 2016 04:43:51 PM Lv Zheng wrote: > Sometimes, the users may require a quirk to be provided from ACPI subsystem > core to prevent a GPE from flooding. Normally, if a GPE cannot be > dispatched, ACPICA core automatically prevents the GPE from firing. But > there are cases the GPE is dispatched by _Lxx/_Exx provided via AML table, > and OSPM is lacking of the knowledge to get _Lxx/_Exx correctly executed to > handle the GPE, thus the GPE flooding may still occur. > > This patch provides a quirk mechanism to stop this kind of GPE flooding. > > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53071 > Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/887793 > Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> I didn't like this patch before and I still don't like it. Besides, I'd appreciate it if you didn't mix ACPICA release patches with non-ACPICA ones. Thanks, 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
