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From: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
To: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: a problem about the two patches in bug 10724 & 11428
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:26:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BD06B9.4060204@tuffmail.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220347864.4039.189.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com>

Zhao Yakui wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:36 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:   
>   
>>>     In fact when EC timeout happens in interrupt mode, it indicates that
>>> EC controller can't return response in time.
>>>       
>> Wrong. Some EC controllers are "optimized" to not send interrupts for each confirmation.
>> See history of EC patches for these optimization workarounds.
>>     
> Maybe what you said is right. But in fact as is defined in ACPI spec, EC
> controller should issue an interrupt according to the status of IBF and
> OBF.  More detailed info about EC interrupt model can be found in the
> section 12.6.2 of ACPI 3.0b spec.
> If some EC controller are "optimized" to not send interrupts, is it
> appropriate to reject such bugs?
>   
Not really.  If it works on "The Other OS", it is a bug that it doesn't
work on this one.  That's a specific policy of the linux ACPI
implementation.  Given both the complexity and importance of ACPI I
think it is the right policy.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-02  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-01  6:40 a problem about the two patches in bug 10724 & 11428 Zhao Yakui
2008-09-01  7:49 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-01  9:55   ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-01 12:18     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-02  1:59   ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-02  8:36     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-02  9:31       ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-02  9:26         ` Alan Jenkins [this message]
2008-09-02  9:30         ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-02 10:00           ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-01 12:21 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-09-01 12:52   ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-01 20:35   ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-01 20:59     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-02  1:03       ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-02  2:03         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-09-02  3:39           ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-02  9:19             ` Alan Jenkins
2008-09-02  8:05       ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-03  6:02       ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-03  6:46         ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-03  7:28           ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-03  8:03           ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-03  7:53             ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-03  8:34               ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-03 21:55                 ` RFC: fast transactions in EC [was: a problem about the two patches in bug 10724 & 11428] Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-04  2:58                   ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-04  3:06                     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-04  3:56                     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-04  4:51                     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-05 20:07                       ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-08  8:19                         ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-08  8:28                           ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-08  8:30                             ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-08  8:41                               ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-03 22:28                 ` a problem about the two patches in bug 10724 & 11428 Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-04  3:43                   ` Zhao Yakui
2008-09-04  3:47                     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-04  6:00                       ` Zhao Yakui

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