From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: a problem about the two patches in bug 10724 & 11428 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:28:49 +0400 Message-ID: <48BF0FA1.4040807@suse.de> References: <1220251221.4039.52.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> <20080901122158.GB21970@khazad-dum.debian.net> <48BC522D.60905@suse.de> <48BC57C9.2040409@suse.de> <1220421722.4007.4.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> <48BE32AF.0@suse.de> <1220429030.4007.22.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> <48BE427C.3070204@suse.de> <1220430856.4007.38.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from charybdis-ext.suse.de ([195.135.221.2]:52335 "EHLO emea5-mh.id5.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752000AbYICW2d (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:28:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1220430856.4007.38.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Zhao Yakui Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org 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.