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From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: corsac@debian.org, ak@linux.intel.com, rui.zhang@intel.com,
	nokos@gmx.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org
Subject: Re: Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 19:30:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808021930.05643.trenn@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080802173146.GA31166@srcf.ucam.org>

On Saturday 02 August 2008 07:31:46 pm Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:48:15PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 August 2008 06:59:52 pm Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > # Only process this on XP, not on Linux and Vista
> >                            If (LAnd (\WXPF, LNot (\WVIS)))
>
> The only way this statement makes sense is if both WXPF and WVIS can be
> true, which is only possible if Vista responds to all of the _OSI
> requests.
No.
The machines are Linux pre-loaded. They do support Linux!
There is no need to check for both variables for Windows specific code (
there are tons of \WVIS and \WXPF only checking).
The only way this statement makes sense is that they *do* check for Linux.

> > # Only process this on XP, not on Linux and Vista
> >                         If (LAnd (LNot (\WXPF), \WNTF))
>
> Actually, this is "Only execute on 2000, not on XP or higher".
Yes I mixed up XP and NT.


       Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-02 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-01 15:37 Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers - version 4 Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 01/10] ACPI: video: Ignore devices that aren't present in hardware Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 02/10] Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04  1:56   ` Zhang Rui
2008-11-14 22:27   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-11-16 22:07     ` Thomas Renninger
2008-11-17 19:51       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-11-18  2:31         ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 03/10] Acer-WMI: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 21:52   ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 04/10] asus-acpi: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 05/10] compal: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 06/10] eeepc-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 07/10] fujitsu-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 08/10] msi-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 09/10] sony-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 10/10] thinkpad_acpi: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 17:50   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-11-08  5:45     ` Len Brown
2008-08-01 20:49 ` Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers - version 4 Andi Kleen
     [not found] ` <1217632817.4610.6.camel@hidalgo>
2008-08-02 16:57   ` Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 16:59     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-02 16:48       ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 17:31         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-02 17:30           ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2008-08-02 19:48             ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-03  4:43               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-03  6:33                 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-03 13:31               ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-03 14:12                 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-03 16:24                   ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-06 17:12                     ` Moore, Robert
2008-08-02 16:57   ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Provide a OSI interface that does not return true for Windows Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 16:57   ` [PATCH 2/2] patch acpi_lenovo_thinkpad_only_return_vista.patch Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 16:28     ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04  1:16   ` Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPIdrivers - version 4 Zhang Rui
2008-08-04  6:09     ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04  6:20       ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 10:20       ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 10:39         ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 11:19           ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 13:24             ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-04 13:30               ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 13:40                 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 13:47                   ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05  0:01         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-05  5:55           ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05  9:13             ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-05 12:00               ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05 13:37             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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