From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the power state check in power transition Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:13:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20090518071355.GA1710@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1242106060.3773.216.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1242265659.3773.428.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090514105626.GA17294@srcf.ucam.org> <200905141249.35822.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <1242612503.3685.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:59023 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755875AbZERHOE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 03:14:04 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1242612503.3685.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: yakui_zhao Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , "lenb@kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Witold Szczeponik 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