From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
To: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: a problem about the two patches in bug 10724 & 11428
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:28:49 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BF0FA1.4040807@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220430856.4007.38.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com>
Hi Yakui,
Zhao Yakui wrote:
>> If you _disable_ EC GPE or not enable it in first place, EC(hardware) will be working in
>> poll mode. So, there is no spare code to clean up, sorry.
> Not understand what you said.
It seems to be not my problem...
> After your three patches hit the upstream kernel, the EC GPE is still
> enabled when EC timeout happens. In such case when EC is accessed, EC
> will work in polling mode. At the same time EC GPE interrupt still can
> be triggered.
One of my patches adds option to not enable EC GPE (ec_intr=0), so it is
possible to run EC driver in hardware poll mode, and all the code for such
operation is needed. I do not know how to say it in simpler terms, sorry.
If it is still unclear, please consult with Len...
Regards,
Alex.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 22:28 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
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 ` Alexey Starikovskiy [this message]
2008-09-04 3:43 ` a problem about the two patches in bug 10724 & 11428 Zhao Yakui
2008-09-04 3:47 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-09-04 6:00 ` Zhao Yakui
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