From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:05:07 -0500 Message-ID: <200701021205.07817.lenb@kernel.org> References: <45992109.9050009@m3y3r.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:54729 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755384AbXABRF4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:05:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45992109.9050009@m3y3r.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Meyer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Monday 01 January 2007 09:56, Thomas Meyer wrote: > I know this topic was already on the list. But 2.6.20-rc3 still gives me > tons of these messages in the log buffer: > > "ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 > ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 > ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 > ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 > ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 > [and so on]" > > Is this an error at all? not an error, just a stray printk in an EC event handler. fix already queued to linus. The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" -- as EC events are usually infrequent. Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts? If so, at what rate is it growing? thanks, -Len