From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
me@markdoughty.co.uk,
linux-thinkpad <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>,
"devel@acpica.org" <devel@acpica.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 2/3] Introduce acpi_root_table=rsdt boot param and dmi list to force rsdt
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:25:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810211625.47889.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081021140014.GA29330@srcf.ucam.org>
On Tuesday, 21 of October 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:01:55PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > Moreover, as soon as the real fix is developed we can remove the DMI list.
> > Quite frankly, I don't see any downsides.
>
> The downside is that with the DMI list there's significantly less
> incentive to produce a "real" fix (assuming there is one).
I really don't think it works this way.
As long as there only are a few machines in the list, the incentive is very
small in either case. However, as the number of machines in the list grows, it
will produce pressure to fix things. [That's exactly what happened in the
case of the Turion-based HP BIOS issue.]
> We've no idea how many other systems may be affected in one way or another.
Yes, and the list may help us to get an idea IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 21:50 [RESEND] [PATCH 2/3] Introduce acpi_root_table=rsdt boot param and dmi list to force rsdt Thomas Renninger
2008-10-20 1:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-20 15:31 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-20 16:23 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-20 16:27 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-20 16:48 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-20 16:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-20 17:51 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-20 17:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-20 18:16 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-20 18:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-20 18:47 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-20 18:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-20 19:25 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-21 8:14 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-21 9:53 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-21 9:57 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-21 12:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-21 13:05 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-21 13:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-21 13:34 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-21 14:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-21 14:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-21 14:12 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-21 14:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-21 14:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2008-10-21 14:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-21 14:45 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-21 14:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-21 15:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-21 15:27 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-21 15:46 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-21 15:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-21 16:58 ` [ltp] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-21 17:02 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-21 19:04 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-20 16:43 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-20 18:05 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-20 15:46 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-21 11:07 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-11-11 0:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-12 23:58 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-11-13 0:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-13 2:21 ` [Devel] " Zhang Rui
2008-11-13 2:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-13 8:27 ` Zhang Rui
2008-11-13 11:13 ` Matthew Garrett
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