From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Provide a spec conform OSI interface to the BIOS Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:16:25 +0200 Message-ID: <48804349.607@linux.intel.com> References: <1216316268-24042-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.21]:26923 "EHLO orsmga101.jf.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753101AbYGRHQY (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:16:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1216316268-24042-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Thomas Renninger wrote: > Introduce acpi_osi=windows_false boot parameter > Introduce CONFIG_ACPI_OSI_SPEC_CONFORM config option Why are you adding the CONFIG option? In what circumstances would one set it? If anything I think this should be a boot option only for now. I'm not sure this is the right direction anyways, see earlier comments. Probably needs more discussion first. -Andi