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From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
	"Jarosz, Sebastian" <sebastian.jarosz@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch]acpi: add missing _OSI strings -- resend
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:29:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309912152.15392.242.camel@sli10-conroe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110705150853.53e00c17.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 06:08 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:23:20 +0800
> Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Last post (Jun 14 ) is lost, resend.
> > 
> > 
> > Linux supports some optional features, but it should notify BIOS about them
> > in _OSI method. Currently Linux doesn't notify any, which might make such
> > features not work because BIOS doesn't know about them.
> > 
> 
> This is a bit vague.  Are any machines actually fixed or improved by
> this change?  Is so, can we please see a full description of the
> behaviour change?
I haven't a system which needs the fix. Jarosz Sebastian has a system
which needs this to make ACPI processor aggregator device work.

Thanks,
Shaohua


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-06  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-04  5:23 [patch]acpi: add missing _OSI strings -- resend Shaohua Li
2011-07-04 13:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-07-05 22:08 ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-06  0:29   ` Shaohua Li [this message]
2011-07-06 12:50     ` Jarosz, Sebastian

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