From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI suspend: Blacklist HP xw4600 Workstation for old code ordering Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:07:11 -0600 Message-ID: <48F80F6F.6090608@shaw.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]:11069 "EHLO idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855AbYJQEHT (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:07:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Len Brown , "Brown, John M (WGBU R&D)" , Matthew Garrett , ACPI Devel Maling List , Andrew Morton , LKML Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 of October 2008, Len Brown wrote: >> Matthew, >> You are right, of course, we're not doing something right >> if a new machine needs this workaround. > > Isn't that possible, however, that the BIOS of this new machine is based on an > older one that used to have this problem? Maybe, but it doesn't matter. If it's a new machine it's presumably going to work fine on Vista, etc. so it doesn't make much sense that this machine should require the old ACPI code ordering.