From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 3/5] ACPI: EC: Don't degrade to poll mode at storm automatically Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:39:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20080922183947.23eba3a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200809222137.m8MLbXl5031009@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <1222131818.3999.161.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49668 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753829AbYIWBkW (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:40:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1222131818.3999.161.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Zhao Yakui Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, astarikovskiy@suse.de, andi@firstfloor.org, hmh@hmh.eng.br, maxi@daemonizer.de, stable@kernel.org On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:03:38 +0800 Zhao Yakui wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:37 -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > From: Alexey Starikovskiy > > > > Not all users of semi-broken EC devices want to degrade to poll mode, so > > give them right to choose. > > > > This fixes a regression in 2.6.26 (from 2.6.25.3). Initially reported as > > "Asus Eee PC hotkeys stop working if pressed quickly" in bugzilla > > . > This patch is not very reasonable. Yes, I know. I'm just sort of hanging on to it until someone tells me that the bug which it purports to fix is otherwise fixed. And frankly there have been so many bugs in this area that I've forgotten which one we're fixing. I think I'll just give up and drop it.