[PATCH v2 4/9] ACPICA: Events: Introduce acpi_set_gpe()/acpi_finish_gpe() to reduce divergences.

2014-07-14 Thread Lv Zheng
This can help to reduce source code differences between Linux and ACPICA upstream. Further driver cleanups also require these APIs to eliminate GPE storms. 1. acpi_set_gpe(): An API that driver should invoke in the case it wants to disable/enable IRQ without honoring the

[PATCH v2 4/9] ACPICA: Events: Introduce acpi_set_gpe()/acpi_finish_gpe() to reduce divergences.

2014-07-14 Thread Lv Zheng
This can help to reduce source code differences between Linux and ACPICA upstream. Further driver cleanups also require these APIs to eliminate GPE storms. 1. acpi_set_gpe(): An API that driver should invoke in the case it wants to disable/enable IRQ without honoring the