Re: [patch]acpi: add missing _OSI strings -- resend

Shaohua Li
2011-07-06T00:29:14Z

On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 06:08 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:23:20 +0800
> Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > Last post (Jun 14 ) is lost, resend.
> >
> >
> > Linux supports some optional features, but it should notify BIOS about them
> > in _OSI method. Currently Linux doesn't notify any, which might make such
> > features not work because BIOS doesn't know about them.
> >
>
> This is a bit vague. Are any machines actually fixed or improved by
> this change? Is so, can we please see a full description of the
> behaviour change?
I haven't a system which needs the fix. Jarosz Sebastian has a system
which needs this to make ACPI processor aggregator device work.

Thanks,
Shaohua