From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: corsac@debian.org, ak@linux.intel.com, rui.zhang@intel.com,
nokos@gmx.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org
Subject: Re: Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 19:30:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808021930.05643.trenn@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080802173146.GA31166@srcf.ucam.org>
On Saturday 02 August 2008 07:31:46 pm Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:48:15PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 August 2008 06:59:52 pm Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > # Only process this on XP, not on Linux and Vista
> > If (LAnd (\WXPF, LNot (\WVIS)))
>
> The only way this statement makes sense is if both WXPF and WVIS can be
> true, which is only possible if Vista responds to all of the _OSI
> requests.
No.
The machines are Linux pre-loaded. They do support Linux!
There is no need to check for both variables for Windows specific code (
there are tons of \WVIS and \WXPF only checking).
The only way this statement makes sense is that they *do* check for Linux.
> > # Only process this on XP, not on Linux and Vista
> > If (LAnd (LNot (\WXPF), \WNTF))
>
> Actually, this is "Only execute on 2000, not on XP or higher".
Yes I mixed up XP and NT.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-02 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 15:37 Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers - version 4 Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 01/10] ACPI: video: Ignore devices that aren't present in hardware Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 02/10] Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 1:56 ` Zhang Rui
2008-11-14 22:27 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-11-16 22:07 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-11-17 19:51 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-11-18 2:31 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 03/10] Acer-WMI: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 21:52 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 04/10] asus-acpi: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 05/10] compal: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 06/10] eeepc-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 07/10] fujitsu-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 08/10] msi-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 09/10] sony-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 10/10] thinkpad_acpi: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 17:50 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-11-08 5:45 ` Len Brown
2008-08-01 20:49 ` Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers - version 4 Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <1217632817.4610.6.camel@hidalgo>
2008-08-02 16:57 ` Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 16:59 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-02 16:48 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 17:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-02 17:30 ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2008-08-02 19:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-03 4:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-03 6:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-03 13:31 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-03 14:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-03 16:24 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-06 17:12 ` Moore, Robert
2008-08-02 16:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Provide a OSI interface that does not return true for Windows Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 16:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] patch acpi_lenovo_thinkpad_only_return_vista.patch Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 16:28 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 1:16 ` Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPIdrivers - version 4 Zhang Rui
2008-08-04 6:09 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 6:20 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 10:20 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 10:39 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 11:19 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 13:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-04 13:30 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 13:40 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 13:47 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05 0:01 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-05 5:55 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05 9:13 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-05 12:00 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05 13:37 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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