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: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 18:42:37 +0100 Message-ID: <20130801174237.GA20121@srcf.ucam.org> References: <37178266.QXgbv9rq0i@vostro.rjw.lan> <20130731051421.GA15766@srcf.ucam.org> <20130731140010.GA24560@srcf.ucam.org> <20130731175232.GA29987@srcf.ucam.org> <20130731184724.GA30896@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]:57139 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751726Ab3HARmn (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:42:43 -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 Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:37:04PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > 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. > > This is insanity; we can never guarantee 100% of anything. > > Better is better. And 99% is better than 90% An interface that describes reality is better than one that doesn't. But hey, feel free to disagree and post a patch for the ABI docs. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org