Re: [PATCH] ACPI / EC: Process rather than discard events in acpi_ec_clear

2014-04-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 12:21:20 AM Kieran Clancy wrote: > Address a regression caused by commit ad332c8a4533: > (ACPI / EC: Clear stale EC events on Samsung systems) > > After the earlier patch, there was found to be a race condition on some > earlier Samsung systems (N150/N210/N220). The fu

[PATCH] ACPI / EC: Process rather than discard events in acpi_ec_clear

2014-04-29 Thread Kieran Clancy
Address a regression caused by commit ad332c8a4533: (ACPI / EC: Clear stale EC events on Samsung systems) After the earlier patch, there was found to be a race condition on some earlier Samsung systems (N150/N210/N220). The function acpi_ec_clear was sometimes discarding a new EC event before its