From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI video: fix a poor error message Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:27:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20100817152755.GA25805@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1282012975.5181.16.camel@rui> <20100817133458.GA22699@srcf.ucam.org> <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D830858AE61F464@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:46763 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753860Ab0HQP2F (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:28:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D830858AE61F464@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Moore, Robert" Cc: "Zhang, Rui" , "Brown, Len" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , Thomas Renninger On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:24:25AM -0700, Moore, Robert wrote: > Do we agree that the original message is unclear? > > I'm not even sure that ACPI requires this method. Indeed, it's not actually on the list of required methods. > Perhaps the message should describe what won't happen because of the missing _BQC method. Perhaps just "No _BQC method: Unable to determine initial brightness"? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org