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Message-Id: <200810112254.09094.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:54:08 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
Cc:	Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@...il.com>,
	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>,
	linux acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: acpi-test tree on eeepc: EC error message on second resume

On Saturday, 11 of October 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> No, we discussed this before -- we are outside of the transaction, thus 
> >> no GPE
> >> activity could interfere with ec_check_ibf0.
> > 
> > Ok, this is in the process context and we don't really expect to get an
> > interrupt at this point, but what happens if the EC generates an event that's
> > not related to any transiaction.  Is that guaranteed to never happen?
> Interrupt handler in this case can't cause a change to status register, thus our 
> read of it will not be affected by interrupt.

Ok, thanks.

Alan, does the patch work for you?

Rafael
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