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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu PATCH] acpi: Add IBM R60E laptop to proc-idle blacklist
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:30:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060620093016.GA27807@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060619203333.5e897ead.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:33:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +	{ set_max_cstate, "IBM ThinkPad R40e", {
> > +	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "IBM"),
> > +	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "1SET70WW") }, (void*)1},

> It seems that every R40e in the world is in that table.
> 
> Can/should we wildcard it?  From my reading of dmi_check_system(), we can use
> "" in place of the "1SET..." string and it'll dtrt?

Wouldn't that result in every machine with "IBM" as the BIOS vendor 
having their maximum c-state limited?
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4491BC6B.5000704@oracle.com>
2006-06-20  3:33 ` [Ubuntu PATCH] acpi: Add IBM R60E laptop to proc-idle blacklist Andrew Morton
2006-06-20  3:51   ` Ben Pfaff
2006-06-20  5:16     ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-20  9:30     ` Matthew Garrett
2006-06-20  9:30   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2006-06-20 19:56     ` Randy Dunlap

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