Re: ASUS M6 has problem with ACPI events being delayed

[Jan Kasprzak <kas-0hYGf3jDe+XrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>]

Stefan Seyfried wrote:
: Hi,
: 
: i am sitting in front of an ASUS M6811NEBH and am experiencing an strange
: behaviour wrt ACPI events.
: 
: Doing "cat /proc/acpi/event", i immediately get a response on every button
: press, but using acpid or powersaved, they get the events delayed, like if
: they were put into a FIFO or like if the "write" from the kernel to 
: /proc/acpi/event was buffered.
: 
: I got reports that this broke between the 2.6.5 kernel as delivered by
: SUSE 9.1 (where it still worked fine) and 2.6.9pre as delivered by SUSE 9.2.
: It still does not work with 2.6.11.4
: 
: /proc/interrupts shows an acpi interrupt is generated for every button press.

	I used to have the same problem (Asus M6R), but it disappeared
after a kernel upgrade/reconfiguration. Unfortunately I cannot tell exactly
where the problem was. Do you use CONFIG_PREEMPT?

-Y.

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