Re: Look Ma, da kernel is b0rken

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 05:52:18PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> I hate having to rain on the parade again ;) I just developed
> some doubts, by accident again, by getting dangerously near
> sound/isa/als100.c snd_als100_pnpids: there are many IDs with '@'
> embedded (at least in this ISA-based PnP code), thus I guess that
> code may have had its justification (unless ACPI 5.0 is clearly fully
> authoritative for this space and thus '@' does not have any business
> there any more).
>
> Dito e.g. isa/cmi8330.c.
>
> Hmm, anyone deeply familiar with ISA PnP ID magic? :)

Even if this is violating the ACPI spec, any fix for this needs to be
tested on the hardware (and I can very well imagine that the hardware
might be violating the spec too, nothing new here).

So even if you had a fix, you need to run it on the hardware to verify
that it actually works.

So the actual practical question turns into: do you have such hardware
to verify your or anyone else's fix on?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.