GPE block driver

GPE block driver

[Len Brown]

Matt,
What shall we do with your GPE block driver patch?
Will any systems need this?

Luming, and then Rui refreshed it a while ago.
It could use another refresh at this point...

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2934

thanks,
-Len

Re: GPE block driver

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> Matt,
> What shall we do with your GPE block driver patch?
> Will any systems need this?

Hi Len,

I don't work at HP any more, so I no longer have access to systems which
use this.

However, we have a horse-and-cart situation here -- if Linux doesn't
support GPE blocks, BIOS vendors won't be able to use them.  Since they
are specified in the ACPI standard, we probably *ought* to support them.

> Luming, and then Rui refreshed it a while ago.
> It could use another refresh at this point...
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2934

I'll have to see if my new employer is willing to let me spend time on
it ;-)

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."