Re: [PATCH] acpi: Avoid dropping rapid hotkey events (or otherGPEs) on Asus EeePC

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Thu Jul 17 2008 - 12:26:52 EST


On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>>> Thanks for the patch, ACK.
>>
>> This one fixes a potentially bad problem, since we could ignore more than
>> just hot key EC events by accident. Maybe it should go to -stable?
>
> I vote for it

Well, in that case, it would be best to tack a Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx git
footer to it right away, I think.

IMHO, it would also be nice if the commit message made it more clear that
the issue it solves can affect much more serious ACPI events than just hot
key presses.

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Henrique Holschuh
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