From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 20:48:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20080802194843.GA1168@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1217632817.4610.6.camel@hidalgo> <200808021848.16457.trenn@suse.de> <20080802173146.GA31166@srcf.ucam.org> <200808021930.05643.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:48429 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754286AbYHBTst (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:48:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808021930.05643.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: corsac@debian.org, ak@linux.intel.com, rui.zhang@intel.com, nokos@gmx.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/_OSI-method.mspx : "Any follow-on operating system from Microsoft that can support the Windows XP feature set will also return TRUE for Windows 2001. For example, if Microsoft released a follow-on operating system in 2003, it will probably be assigned a string of Windows 2003. This operating system would then return TRUE for the strings Windows 2001 and Windows 2003, and it would return FALSE for all other strings." So, no, it is not a test for Linux. Windows reports all versions, not just the current one. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org