From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center
To: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Subject: Re: ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:05:07 -0500
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On Monday 01 January 2007 09:56, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> I know this topic was already on the list. But 2.6.20-rc3 still gives me 
> tons of these messages in the log buffer:
> 
> "ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> [and so on]"
> 
>  Is this an error at all?

not an error, just a stray printk in an EC event handler.
fix already queued to linus.

The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" --
as EC  events are usually infrequent.
Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts?
If so, at what rate is it growing?

thanks,
-Len
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