Re: [PATCH] ACPI: EC: do transaction from interrupt context

[Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>]

Hi Sitsofe,

Alan already tested my patch and it works for him.

Regards,
Alex.

Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> Zhao Yakui wrote:
>>     I think that the problem on the asus-EEEPC can't be resolved really
>> by the Alexey's patch. IMO it is only lucky.
> 
> How lucky? It really does go from excruciatingly slow to quite fast on 
> that laptop. What will happen should my luck fail? What are the odds of 
> my luck failing?
> 
>>    In fact the main problem on Asus-EEEPC is related with the broken EC.
>> Before an EC notification event is processed, another EC notification
>> event arrives again.
>>    If EC driver check whether the SCI_EVT bit is set after processing
>> one EC notification event, the problem will be resolved.     
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11089
>>     Alan Jenkins already sent a patch about how to fix the issue on the
>> Asus-EEEPC.
> 
> I'll cc Alan and see what he makes of this patch.
> 
>>    But if the above patch is merged , maybe it will break some laptops.
> 
> Fair enough but can those people with such laptops test the patch too 
> and report back? Can you say in what form the breakages will take? From 
> what you are saying it sounds like this patch shouldn't have had any 
> affect for me but it does. What happens when they try it? What happens 
> when you try it?
>