From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Engel Subject: Re: Why is it so hard to (get) help on ACPI? Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 00:16:30 +0200 Message-ID: <464CD43E.8060409@gmx.de> References: <200705172005.47845.matija.suklje@rutka.net> <200705172132.06026.matija.suklje@rutka.net> <8f8ff01d0705171256m39b6e5t8a69f8095f00594b@mail.gmail.com> <200705172210.14815.matija.suklje@rutka.net> <20070517204439.GA23599@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58937 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755149AbXEQWP4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 18:15:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070517204439.GA23599@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: =?UTF-8?B?TWF0aWphIMWgdWtsamU=?= , Alexey Starikovskiy , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Matthew Garrett schrieb: > The kernel's job is to make hardware work. If the hardware works under > another OS, then it failing to work in Linux is a bug in Linux. So, yes, > the correct place to fix this sort of thing is in the kernel rather than > your DSDT. > > However, please note that the DSDT is almost entirely irrelevant when it > comes to things like suspend/resume. Modifying it is hugely unlikely to > make things work there. Hm, I do not totally agree. Since in some cases you know that a BIOS update caused the trouble it seems to be likely in my eyes that these problems could be fixed by DSDT changes. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Greetings, Johannes