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Message-Id: <200810111846.36862.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:46:36 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Robert Goldner <robert@...79.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch needed for ASUS EEEPC 701 2.6.27 (perhaps a regession)

On Saturday, 11 of October 2008, Robert Goldner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a happy user of an asus eeepc 701 with an self-made kernel 2.6.27. 
> Its working quite good, but there is one patch needed to avoid problems 
> related to ACPI and Hotkeys.
> After using a few hotkeys there comes a message in syslog like:
> ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
> and no hotkey event is recognized any more. This is quite bad on a nettop.
> 
> The needed patch and the bug description is available at:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10919
> The patch is called 'patch vs 2.6.27-rc7'
> 
> The patch fits also to 2.6.27 without any problems and works very fine. 
> Thanks to everyone who was involved.
> 
> I would suggest to include this patch in the mainline kernel very soon 
> (e.g. 2.6.28 or if possible in 2.6.27.1).

This patch is scheduled for 2.6.28 AFAICS and will be included into -stable if
it doesn't break anything in the mainline.

Thanks,
Rafael
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