Re: commit 'ACPICA: Minimize the differences between linux GPE code and ACPICA code base' breaks EC GPE on my system

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Friday, June 11, 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 21:43 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: 
> > On Friday, June 11, 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Friday, June 11, 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > > Just bisected it.
> > > > 
> > > > I also tried linux-acpi-next/test, and no change.
> > > > 
> > > > The sympthoms are that EC does't sent any GPEs, and therefore battery
> > > > insert/removal events don't show up.
> > > > 
> > > > It can be see by doing 'grep  . /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/*'
> > > > With regression the line is shown like this:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe1C:   1	enabled
> > > > 
> > > > Without regression it is
> > > > 
> > > > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe1C:   22889	enabled
> > > > 
> > > > and steadily increasing.
> > > > 
> > > > After suspend/resume, regression disappears.
> > > 
> > > Hmm.
> > > 
> > > Can you please apply the following patches:
> > > 
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104903/
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104912/
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104909/
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104911/
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104910/
> > > 
> > > on top of current -git and see if the problem is still there?
> > 
> > Also, regardless of whether or not this helps, please try to revert only the
> > changes made by the "guilty" commit in drivers/acpi/acpica/evxface.c and see
> > if that helps (this revert will conflict with the patches above, so you'll need
> > to unapply them before).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
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> Yes, reverting changes in 'drivers/acpi/acpica/evxface.c' do restore
> correct behavior.

Good.  I think we'll need to revert them for .35, then.

I'll prepare a patch and send it to Len.

Rafael