From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: add DMI to enable OSI(Linux) on ThinkPad T61
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:43:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080119154328.GA11024@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080119153304.GA27060@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:33:04PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Yes. This is no easy problem asking for a quick hack as a solution. It is
> not impossible to solve, but it will definately require more than hacks on
> our side to get it done properly.
The only way to get it done properly is to ensure that we're compatible
with Windows, and to get vendors to tell us when we're not. Offering
them any mechanism that allows them to special-case Linux will just lead
to them doing so and ignoring the problem, which will probably then trip
up other systems that don't special-case Linux. Let's not go down this
path. The fact that we're even having to have this conversation should
indicate that it's not a good idea.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-19 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-17 10:24 [PATCH 0/5] improved knobs to deal with OSI(Linux) Len Brown
2008-01-17 10:24 ` [PATCH 1/5] DMI: move dmi_available declaration to linux/dmi.h Len Brown
2008-01-17 10:24 ` [PATCH 2/5] DMI: create dmi_dump_entries() Len Brown
2008-01-17 10:24 ` [PATCH 3/5] ACPI: use dmi_dump_entries() instead of requesting dmidecode output Len Brown
2008-01-17 10:24 ` [PATCH 4/5] ACPI: OSI(Linux) cmdline and DMI BIOS workarounds Len Brown
2008-01-17 10:24 ` [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: add DMI to enable OSI(Linux) on ThinkPad T61 Len Brown
2008-01-17 12:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-17 14:46 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-17 20:04 ` Len Brown
2008-01-17 21:31 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-19 7:40 ` Len Brown
2008-01-19 12:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-19 14:17 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-19 15:33 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-19 15:43 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-01-19 23:19 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-20 4:13 ` Len Brown
2008-01-20 11:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-01-20 12:03 ` Tomas Carnecky
2008-01-20 18:31 ` Len Brown
2008-01-20 19:21 ` Tomas Carnecky
2008-01-21 1:52 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-21 9:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-21 19:00 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-21 19:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-22 5:37 ` Len Brown
2008-01-20 19:49 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-18 16:58 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-18 19:17 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-19 0:00 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-19 0:26 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-19 6:34 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-19 13:24 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-19 10:26 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-19 14:24 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-20 1:43 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-20 2:47 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-19 7:50 ` [PATCH 6/5] ACPI: DMI blacklist for OSI(Linux) Len Brown
2008-01-19 8:16 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 4:18 ` Len Brown
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