Re: [PATCH 4/8] ACPI: Use GPE reference counting to support shared GPEs

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Feb 19 2010 - 16:07:50 EST


On Friday 19 February 2010, Jin Dongming wrote:
> Hi, Rafael J. Wysocki
>
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 February 2010, Jin Dongming wrote:
> >> Hi, Rafael J. Wysocki
> >>> - /* Update enable mask, but don't enable the HW GPE as of yet */
> >>> -
> >>> - status = acpi_ev_enable_gpe(gpe_event_info, FALSE);
> >
> > You could preserve some more context.
> >
> >> I think the above line code should be remained. If it is deleted, the exception
> >> event will be raised on some machine.
> >
> > Why would it? The GPE is still disabled at the hardware level at this point.
> >
> > Rafael
> >
> >
> I am very sorry for my wrong comment. The GPE is still disabled as you wrote.
>
> The error message what I got was not caused by GPE event, it was caused by the "status"
> variable which had not been deleted on x86-next tree. And it is also deleted at this
> file. So I don't there is problem here.

Great, thanks for the review.

Rafael
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