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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI video: print out a warning message when duplicate video bus devices under the same VGA controller are detected
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:10:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091126051008.GB7874@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259197533.10510.76.camel@rzhang1-desktop>

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:05:33AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:

> If this bug is not rare, then we can set up a dmi list to choose the
> working video bus device for these laptops.

Any time somebody says "we can set up a dmi list", we've already failed. 
Does Windows work on this system without platform-specific drivers? If 
so, Linux is wrong and a dmi approach is incorrect. Does Windows require 
a platform-specific driver? If so, Linux should also require a 
platform-specific driver and a dmi approach in the core code is 
incorrect.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-26  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-25  9:16 [PATCH] ACPI video: print out a warning message when duplicate video bus devices under the same VGA controller are detected Zhang Rui
2009-11-25 21:39 ` Len Brown
2009-11-26  1:05   ` Zhang Rui
2009-11-26  5:10     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-12-29  2:40       ` Len Brown

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