Re: [PATCH 0/3] acpi: GPE fixes

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Alan Jenkins
<alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Here's what I came up with -
>
> 1.  I was fighting against EC_FLAGS_QUERY_PENDING.  This was used to ignore
>    multiple successive GPE interrupts and treat them as a single GPE instead.
>    That's the exact opposite of what we want to do.  Let's get rid of it.
>
> 2.  Then we can apply my original patch to fix GPE polling on the Asus EeePC,
>    by repeatedly querying for GPEs until there are none left.
>
> 3.  Finally, if I'm right then we now know how to handle "GPE interrupt storms".
>    Some EC's are raising multiple interrupts before we acknowledge them. but
>    they're just telling us how many events are pending.  There's no harm in
>    that, so we don't ever need to disable GPE interrupts.  Let's get rid of
>    GPE polling mode.  (Code mainly stolen from Alexey).

Hi,

I have seen the "GPE storm" message before but it had no apparent
side-effects. Your patches do not seem to change this, although the
message is now gone. Thanks! (I have an Acer Aspire 5720 laptop.)


Vegard

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