From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:47:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20130731184724.GA30896@srcf.ucam.org> References: <3453253.oZLO1ChPbL@vostro.rjw.lan> <37178266.QXgbv9rq0i@vostro.rjw.lan> <20130731051421.GA15766@srcf.ucam.org> <20130731140010.GA24560@srcf.ucam.org> <20130731175232.GA29987@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:42299 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755226Ab3GaSr3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:47:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Aaron Lu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Linus Torvalds On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:07:57PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > If we can make the software behave consistently for 99% of the > machines out there instead of only 90%, that's better. If we can't make an interface 100% consistent, we shouldn't pretend that the interface is 100% consistent. We can't, and so we don't. Setting a backlight value of 0 may turn the screen off, and userspace needs to deal with that. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org