From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Jerone Young <jerone.young@canonical.com>,
Alex Chiang <achiang@canonical.com>,
lenb@kernel.org, colin.king@canonical.com,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for multiple Lenovo ThinkPads
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:01:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004202101.10245.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100420172419.GA9719@srcf.ucam.org>
On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:18:56PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
>
> > I could agree, but the only issue is if you go to the thinkpad-acpi or
> > ibm-acpi mailing list they would probably disagree as there have been
> > updates to the bios in the past required for proper functionality of
> > Thinkpads ;-) .. the bios update methods have not changed since then for
> > Thinkpads.
>
> If another OS works, and if Linux can be made to work without impairing
> the functionality of working machines, then Linux should be made to
> work. Always. Updating the BIOS should be limited to cases where it's
> impossible to fix things up in the OS.
Agreed.
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-20 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-20 14:03 [PATCH] ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for multiple Lenovo ThinkPads Alex Chiang
2010-04-20 14:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-20 14:54 ` Alex Chiang
2010-04-20 16:56 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-20 17:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-20 17:18 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-20 17:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-20 19:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2010-04-20 17:20 ` Alex Chiang
2010-04-22 20:41 ` Alex Chiang
2010-05-05 20:34 ` Len Brown
2010-05-05 22:42 ` Alex Chiang
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