From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: yakui_zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
"lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the power state check in power transition
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:08:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090513130803.GA27522@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242184384.3773.241.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:13:04AM +0800, yakui_zhao wrote:
> In fact this object is defined in ACPI spec. And we had better follow
> that. IMO Linux ACPI does the right thing.
> The boot option of "acpi.power_nocheck" is only to make Linux be
> compatible with windows.
The default behaviour should be to be compatible with Windows,
regardless of what the spec says. There's an argument for providing a
strict interpretation of the spec for testing purposes, but I don't see
any reason for it to be split up into dozens of individual kernel
parameters.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-13 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 5:27 [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the power state check in power transition yakui_zhao
2009-05-12 14:57 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-05-13 3:13 ` yakui_zhao
2009-05-13 13:08 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-05-14 1:47 ` yakui_zhao
2009-05-14 10:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-05-14 18:49 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-05-18 2:08 ` yakui_zhao
2009-05-18 7:13 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-05-21 23:28 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-05-28 1:43 ` Len Brown
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