From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dominik Brodowski Subject: Re: Re: Linux ACPI processor driver patch: user-definable power state limit Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:41:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20041105234120.GA20761@dominikbrodowski.de> References: <200410112335.19159.jos.delbar@ugent.be> <1099683907.13837.1353.camel@d845pe> <20041105225438.GA8262@dominikbrodowski.de> <1099696293.13834.1639.camel@d845pe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1099696293.13834.1639.camel@d845pe> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Len Brown Cc: Jos Delbar , ACPI Developers , Robert Moore , James P Ketrenos List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:11:33PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 17:54, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > That sounds to be quite racy. Multiple callers will get confused. > > You probably need a > > > > comitted design defect;-) > > Yeah, James mentioned this too and suggested he send in a pci_dev > from the ipw2100 driver. But I didn't think this workaround > justified the complexity. > > After all, 99% of the time it will be not used. > the other 99% of 1% the time it is used, it will be used > only at module load/init time. not if I understand all the corruption messages I see on my ipw2100 adaptor. AFAICS, it C3 type sleep needs to be disabled for short periods of time quite often then... > can use for c-states locked now. My suggestion is just a few minutes away... Dominik ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click