From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel Version specific vendor override possibilities needed - Revert and provide osi=linux or provide a replacement
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:55:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080221145527.GA8768@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47BD8F41.6000801@gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:48:33PM +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> How about WMI?
> Do you think that there will be some point in the future,
> when we could claim that our WMI implementation is the
> same as Windows + HW manufacturer private driver?
When vendors require custom drivers, we're going to end up requiring a
custom driver. That's true regardless of how the functionality is
exposed. The solution there is to encourage vendors not to require
custom drivers, not to get them to expose the same functionality in two
different ways.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-21 14:55 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
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 [this message]
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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