From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
"Brown, Len" <lenb@kernel.org>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI video: fix a poor error message
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:27:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100817152755.GA25805@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D830858AE61F464@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:24:25AM -0700, Moore, Robert wrote:
> Do we agree that the original message is unclear?
>
> I'm not even sure that ACPI requires this method.
Indeed, it's not actually on the list of required methods.
> Perhaps the message should describe what won't happen because of the missing _BQC method.
Perhaps just "No _BQC method: Unable to determine initial brightness"?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-17 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-17 2:42 [PATCH] ACPI video: fix a poor error message Zhang Rui
2010-08-17 13:34 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-08-17 15:24 ` Moore, Robert
2010-08-17 15:27 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-08-17 15:46 ` Moore, Robert
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