From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linda Knippers Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:09:06 -0400 Message-ID: <55DF4432.6080300@hp.com> References: <1440606024-29873-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1440606024-29873-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1440623522.14237.57.camel@hp.com> <1440625466.14237.62.camel@hp.com> <55DF21FC.8020106@hp.com> <55DF2E26.30701@hp.com> <55DF3BA7.7070909@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from g4t3425.houston.hp.com ([15.201.208.53]:41534 "EHLO g4t3425.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751604AbbH0RJI (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:09:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Williams Cc: Toshi Kani , Rafael J Wysocki , Robert Moore , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , Linux ACPI , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" On 8/27/2015 1:04 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Linda Knippers wrote: >> I know this seems like a nit but we've going to live with this stuff for >> a long time. > > Along those lines, Bob just came by my office and gave me a decisive > argument that I think trumps my ABI concerns, and one I'd be willing > to argue for 4.2 inclusion. Some BIOS implementers may do the work to > get the polarity correct others may just read the flag name and get it > wrong. Once that happens the field loses all meaning regardless of > whether Linux interprets it correctly. BIOS developers, BIOS testers, and the OS folks working with those teams will be grateful. Thanks, -- ljk