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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>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Witold Szczeponik <Witold.Szczeponik@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the power state check in power transition
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:13:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518071355.GA1710@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242612503.3685.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:08:23AM +0800, yakui_zhao wrote:

> The flag of "force_power_state" can't be removed. For example: The ACPI
> fan is in Off state. But the bogus bios reports that it is in D0 state.
> If there is no flag of "force_power_state", we can't turn on the FAN
> device.

If Windows never calls _STA in this case, why do we care that it's lying 
to us?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18  7:14 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
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 [this message]
2009-05-21 23:28               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-05-28  1:43 ` Len Brown

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