From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or other GPEs) on Asus EeePC Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:17:29 +0400 Message-ID: <48D69DC9.5060100@suse.de> References: <48D695B3.5000303@tuffmail.co.uk> 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]:36312 "EHLO emea5-mh.id5.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750877AbYIUTR2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:17:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48D695B3.5000303@tuffmail.co.uk> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Jenkins Cc: linux acpi Hi Alan, That patch is old news already... There is a new shiny one appended to 9998/10724/11549... Please give it a try. It does disable GPE, but for very small duration. Regards, Alex. Alan Jenkins wrote: > Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >> Here is the patch. >> >> Please try/review. >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> Alan Jenkins wrote: >>> Sounds sensible. Hopefully we're right that most systems with these >>> broken EC's don't want the workaround. I assume you will still notify >>> the user automatically, something like "acpi: ec: GPE storm detected, >>> try booting with ec=poll". > > My apologies. I seem to have tested this but neglected to reply :-(. > > I've been running with this for a week or so now. I've been bashing the > hotkeys (and holding down the ones with autorepeat), and it works fine. > Plus I get the message in the kernel log suggesting ec_intr=0 if the > keyboard doesn't work. It's all good. > > Thanks > Alan