Re: [v3.4-rc1] ACPI regression bisected

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 12 2012 - 16:42:21 EST


On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > I feared that. So now is the question whether there is a way to mask
> > > the interrupt at the "device" level.
>
> Probably not. Len?
>
> > If not, I could be persuaded to provide a mechanism to force thread
> > all interrupts which are on that line, if there's a good argument to
> > do so.
>
> Hmm, we could probably just use a work queue for this instead. I guess i drank
> the threaded
> interrupt kool aid too much when I did the patch :-)
>
> I'll switch over to a workqueue.
>
> Meanwhile the patch can be just reverted. The patch that needed it (delays in
> EC access to
> work around buggy Acer EC) was not merged by Len so far, so there's nothing
> in tree right
> now that relies on the thread.
>
> For 3.4 I think reverting is the right approach.

Ack.
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