Re: [PATCH] ACPI: add "auto" to acpi_enforce_resources

Hans de Goede
2009-03-24T13:20:52Z

On 03/24/2009 01:39 PM, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Pavel Machek<pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>>> For the record we have changed the default to strict in Fedora's
>>>> development branch, for 2 weeks or so now, including in the recently
>>>> released Fedora 11 release and we've had 0 complaints so far.
>>> Well, if the number of affected systems is small, this is good news.
>>> But this is only 2 weeks and one distribution, coverage isn't
>>> sufficient to claim anything yet IMHO.
>>>
>>> That being said... if there's a common consensus that switching to
>>> strict and dealing with fallouts is the best thing to do, and I'm the
>>> only one objecting to this, then I am ready to admit that I was wrong
>>> and let you proceed.
>> I believe that 'enable strict, deal with fallout' is the best
>> long-term strategy...
>
> Hello,
> the merge window for .30 is now open, what are we going to do with this issue?
>

I think the consensus was to make the default strict and to merge the atk0110
driver, right?

Note that we've been running this setup in Fedora kernels for quite a while now,
and have had only one bug report, which was solved by simply explaining why this
was done.

Regards,

Hans