Re: [PATCH] Fixed buffered ACPI events for a lot ASUS machines

[Yu Luming <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Monday 12 September 2005 19:39, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I finally could resolve the buffering of ACPI events on
>  some ASUS (M6N, M6000, A3500N, A6000G, maybe more...)
>  when battery module is loaded.
>
>  After hours of hopeless debugging I could track it down by comparing
>  with Yu Luming's previously patch posted on bugzilla.kernel.org.
Do you mean the patch at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3851#c75?
or http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3851#c74
>
>  Yu, could you confirm that this is really fixing a bug and totally safe?
>
Now ec->burst.pending_gpe is useless. it will be cleaned up.

>  Or was this intended and could possibly lead to problems on other
> machines?

If the attached patch fixs the bug, I guess you are using old code.

Thanks,
Luming


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