From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755572AbYFJPe5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:34:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752572AbYFJPes (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:34:48 -0400 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:40762 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752621AbYFJPer (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:34:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:30:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Len Brown Subject: Re: ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE In-reply-to: <20080606235526.783acc83.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-X-Sender: lenb@localhost.localdomain To: Andrew Morton Cc: Justin Mattock , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Starikovskiy Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII References: <20080606235526.783acc83.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Could someone from acpi land please help here? Alexey maintains the EC, and he's supplied 3 patches to test in the bug report. The 3rd is awaiting word from Justin. cheers, -Len > Justin, has this machine always had this problem or is it something > which earlier kernels handled correctly? note that the EC storm detection is new -- so the failure may have simply been different in older kernels -- such as a huge number of ACPI interrupts. cheers, -len