From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] amd76x_pm: C3 powersaving for AMD K7 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 17:43:47 -0500 Message-ID: <20060202224347.GL11831@redhat.com> References: <20060202222407.GB896@sommrey.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:61078 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932407AbWBBWoO (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 17:44:14 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060202222407.GB896@sommrey.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Linux kernel mailing list , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Tony Lindgren , "Brown, Len" , Erik Slagter , Alan Cox On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:24:07PM +0100, Joerg Sommrey wrote: > +- Occasional hard lockups might be caused by amd76x_pm. I'm still working > + on this issue. We've had users report lockups, random oopses and other problems with lvcool and amd76x_pm in the past, that went away when the module. The lack of understanding of this problem makes me inclined to say that this shouldn't get merged upstream until it's solved. If it does get merged, it's not something I intend to enable in a distro kernel for some time, if at all. Dave