All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:47:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130731184724.GA30896@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s1c5pmiC2fvmRi9vFrJXb2zYUT_F=paM2LR_V+7THnFVg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:07:57PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> If we can make the software behave consistently for 99% of the
> machines out there instead of only 90%, that's better.

If we can't make an interface 100% consistent, we shouldn't pretend that 
the interface is 100% consistent. We can't, and so we don't. Setting a 
backlight value of 0 may turn the screen off, and userspace needs to 
deal with that.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-31 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-29 19:20 [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A Felipe Contreras
2013-07-29 20:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-29 20:22   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-29 20:47     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-29 21:04       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-30  3:11 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-30  3:44   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-30  5:51     ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-30  5:57       ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-30 13:42         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-30 20:59           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-30 23:13             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-31  0:11               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31  1:36                 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-31  2:07                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31  2:22                     ` Aaron Lu
2013-08-01 18:50                       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31  5:14                 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-31 11:32                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 14:00                     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-31 17:46                       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 17:52                         ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-31 18:07                           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 18:47                             ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-08-01 17:37                               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-01 17:42                                 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-01 17:50                                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-01 18:01                                     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-01 18:11                                       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-01 23:40                 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31  1:59             ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-31  2:09               ` Felipe Contreras
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-20 22:16 Vincent Blut
2013-10-21  1:53 ` Aaron Lu
2013-10-21 21:21   ` Vincent Blut
2013-10-22  2:16     ` Aaron Lu
2013-10-22  2:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-23 15:31   ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-23 19:39     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-24  0:53       ` Matthew Garrett

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20130731184724.GA30896@srcf.ucam.org \
    --to=mjg59@srcf.ucam.org \
    --cc=aaron.lwe@gmail.com \
    --cc=felipe.contreras@gmail.com \
    --cc=lenb@kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=rjw@sisk.pl \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.