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From: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel Version specific vendor override possibilities needed - Revert and provide osi=linux or provide a replacement
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:07:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BD93AE.7000609@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080221145527.GA8768@srcf.ucam.org>

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:48:33PM +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>
>   
>> How about WMI?
>> Do you think that there will be some point in the future,
>> when we could claim that our WMI implementation is the
>> same as Windows + HW manufacturer private driver?
>>     
>
> When vendors require custom drivers, we're going to end up requiring a 
> custom driver. That's true regardless of how the functionality is 
> exposed. The solution there is to encourage vendors not to require 
> custom drivers, not to get them to expose the same functionality in two 
> different ways.
>
>   
It will always be two ways -- Windows way with WMI and other OSes way 
without it.
The choice is there to place this non-Windows custom driver -- in C or 
in AML.
This is their choice, right? If they choose to not create custom
driver or have some concerns about complexity of its implementation in
C rather than in AML, they should be allowed to choose AML.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20  1:44 Kernel Version specific vendor override possibilities needed - Revert and provide osi=linux or provide a replacement Thomas Renninger
2008-02-20 10:31 ` Tomas Carnecky
2008-02-20 13:14   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-20 15:31   ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-20 17:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-20 18:21   ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-20 18:46     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-20 18:23   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-20 18:49     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21  3:13       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-21  5:31         ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2008-02-21 15:55           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-21  9:15         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21 13:51           ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-21 14:30             ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21 14:48               ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-02-21 14:55                 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21 15:07                   ` Alexey Starikovskiy [this message]
2008-02-21 15:50               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-26 16:26             ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-26 16:31               ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-22 14:07   ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-22 18:10     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-26 16:26       ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-21  8:41 ` Len Brown
2008-02-21 15:41   ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-21 15:58     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-21 17:15     ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-22 23:36       ` Len Brown
2008-02-23  0:06     ` Len Brown

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