Re: Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls

Thomas Renninger
2008-08-03T16:22:37Z

On Sunday 03 August 2008 04:12:31 pm Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 03:31:53PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > This is even worse, because that means that Lenovo and everyone
> > else who has to add Windows hotfixes to their BIOS and potentially
> > have to break their Linux supported OS by that cannot guarantee
> > their customers full Linux support (without providing a separate
> > Linux BIOS).
>
> That's fine. Where we diverge from the Windows behaviour we already have
> a bug.

Yes.
I take above statement back.
This Windows behaviour very much de-escalates the situation.

If Windows sticks to this then there is no urgent need for OSI(notWindows)
or OSI(Linux).

Thanks for pointing this out.

Thomas