Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST

Andrew Morton
2008-05-27T23:21:04Z

On Fri, 23 May 2008 15:43:48 +0900
Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> This patch adds DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST.
> (PRIMEQUEST is ia64 machine.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/blacklist.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.25.4/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.25.4.orig/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
> +++ linux-2.6.25.4/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
> @@ -626,6 +626,20 @@ static struct dmi_system_id acpi_osi_dmi
> DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TOSHIBA"),
> },
> },
> + /*
> + * Enable OSI(Linux) on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST
> + *
> + * DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "PRIMEQUEST"),
> + *
> + */
> + {
> + .callback = dmi_enable_osi_linux,
> + .ident = "Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST",
> + .matches = {
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "FUJITSU LIMITED"),
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "PRIMEQUEST"),
> + },
> + },
> {}
> };

It is unclear (to me) what the impact of this patch is. Does it fix a
problem which would justify including these patches in 2.6.26?

Also, your email client is performing space-stuffing. That is easy
enough to repair at this end (s/^ / /) but please do sort that out for
next time. http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients/Thunderbird
should help.

Thanks.