From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
"Starikovskiy, Alexey Y" <aystarik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel Version specific vendor override possibilities needed - Revert and provide osi=linux or provide a replacement
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:32:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080220173248.GA22709@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203471860.3358.177.camel@linux-2bdv.site>
Let's look at this differently. Most hardware is produced by vendors who
don't care about Linux. We need to make that hardware work anyway. The
only way we can achieve that is to be bug-compatible with Windows.
Therefore, any way in which Linux behaviour varies from Windows
behaviour is a bug. The only reason to export any indication that the
kernel is Linux is because our behaviour is not identical to Windows.
But, given that that's a bug, the solution should be to fix Linux and
not to encourage vendors to put workarounds in their firmware.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-20 1:44 Kernel Version specific vendor override possibilities needed - Revert and provide osi=linux or provide a replacement Thomas Renninger
2008-02-20 10:31 ` Tomas Carnecky
2008-02-20 13:14 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-20 15:31 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-20 17:32 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-02-20 18:21 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-20 18:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-20 18:23 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-20 18:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21 3:13 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-21 5:31 ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2008-02-21 15:55 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-21 9:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21 13:51 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-21 14:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21 14:48 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-02-21 14:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21 15:07 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-02-21 15:50 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-26 16:26 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-26 16:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-22 14:07 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-22 18:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-26 16:26 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-21 8:41 ` Len Brown
2008-02-21 15:41 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-21 15:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21 17:15 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-22 23:36 ` Len Brown
2008-02-23 0:06 ` Len Brown
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