RE: [PATCH 13/30] ACPI / sysfs: Provide quirk mechanism to prevent GPE flooding

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Hi, Rafael

> From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/30] ACPI / sysfs: Provide quirk mechanism to
> prevent GPE flooding
> 
> 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.
> 
[Lv Zheng] 
OK.
So please help to drop it from this series.

> Besides, I'd appreciate it if you didn't mix ACPICA release patches with
> non-ACPICA ones.
[Lv Zheng] 
OK.
Sometimes, I'll have to put non-ACPICA materials in the ACPICA release series in order not to break things because of ACPICA upstream changes.
But this patch isn't such kind of required update, it's my fault, please drop it.

Thanks
Lv

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