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Commit 2d5e94d7 authored by Henrique de Moraes Holschuh's avatar Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Committed by Len Brown
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ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: rate-limit CMOS/EC unsynced error messages



If userspace applications mess with the CMOS NVRAM, or something causes
both the ACPI firmware and thinkpad-acpi to try to change the brightness at
the same time, it is possible to have the CMOS and EC registers for the
current brightness go out of sync.

Should that happen, thinkpad-acpi could be really obnoxious when using a
brightness_mode of 3 (both EC and CMOS).  Instead of complaining a massive
number of times, make sure to complain only once until EC and CMOS are back
in sync.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Joerg Platte <lists@naasa.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
parent 8c74adbc
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