Re: [Bug #10724] ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE

Vegard Nossum
2008-07-13T19:52:40Z

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
>> of recent regressions.
>>
>> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
>> from 2.6.25. Please verify if it still should be listed.
>>
>>
>> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724
>> Subject : ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
>> Submitter : Justin Mattock <justinmattock-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>> Date : 2008-05-16 6:17 (59 days old)
>> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121091875711824&w=4
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/18/168
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/25/195
>> Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16364&action=view
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16365&action=view

I didn't follow the discussion, but I may contribute the following information:

This message first appears in my logs on May 16. That was with kernel
version 2.6.24.5-85.fc8. The kernel I used before that was
2.6.24.4-64.fc8 (May 3). My logs go back to November 8
(2.6.23.1-42.fc8). So we can hardly consider this a regression since
2.6.25, but rather one since 2.6.24?

(I'll also note that this message appears quite infrequently here.
Only 42 times in 219 boot-ups. So it would be hard to bisect, but I'm
guessing the error was introduced somewhere between 2.6.24.4 and
2.6.24.5.)

Vegard

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