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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:51:54 +0100
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To: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Reading EeePC900 battery info causes stalls (was Re: How how
   latent should non-preemptive scheduling be?)
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Hi Alexey,

Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> eeePC is known to be affected by EC GPE storm bug, and there is a patch 
> for 2.6.27 to workaround the problem. please look at
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11549
> for latest patch and bugs 10724/9998 for problem discussion.

Even with http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=17845&action=view 
(fast transaction) applied the stalls are still present (and seemingly 
just as bad as before).