Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759952AbXFDSFT (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:05:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759656AbXFDSE4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:04:56 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37571 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758414AbXFDSEz (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:04:55 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc[23]: blinking capslock led, stuck keys? Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:04:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Pavel Machek , Jiri Kosina , kernel list References: <20070604112426.GA2707@elf.ucw.cz> <20070604163406.GA1120@khazad-dum.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <20070604163406.GA1120@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706042004.35062.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 849 Lines: 19 On Monday 04 June 2007 18:34, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > And DoS'ing the EC is very high on the Don't Do That list on a laptop. If > the X60 is only losing keypresses and producing no bigger fireworks, that's > outstanding behavior (as far as I trust ThinkPad firmware, anyway). > > So please throttle anything that might access the KDC way too much (as > compared to normal keyboard operation by an user). The io port accesses are already throttled and the blinking are quite slow in computer time (talking about hundreds of milliseconds). It is hard to imagine the EC is that slow. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/