linux-kernel - Re: ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:30:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Justin Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
Subject: Re: ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE



> 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

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