Re: [ACPI] GPE storm detected on FS Amilo Pro

From: Jacek Luczak
Date: Thu Jan 22 2009 - 05:16:47 EST


Hi Rafael,

> So everything appears to be OK except that your hardware has a problem,
> which is correctly worked around and the message just tells you what happens.

Most probably yes, but I'm using that kernel really shortly so there might be
some issues that I didn't noticed. This of course doesn't mean that here we have
bug, I was just bit confused with that message.

>> NOTE: In git kernel I've noticed that after boot and obtaining IP from DHCP I've
>> got such message:
>>
>> Jan 21 14:44:32 difrost kernel: sky2 eth0: enabling interface
>> Jan 21 14:44:33 difrost kernel: sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex,
>> flow control rx
>> Jan 21 14:45:36 difrost kernel: ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off
>> interrupt mode.
>>
>> This is not fully reproducible, didn't shown on [4].
>
> This may be related to the issue behind the GPM storm message.

Is it sth serious? I'm really lost here.

-Jacek
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