From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:11:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2OOX8=tumzwiK3_PRJCxfLfDECrz3dPbzNPiUOuYT8TA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130801180144.GA20520@srcf.ucam.org>
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:50:18PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>> > An interface that describes reality is better than one that doesn't. But
>> > hey, feel free to disagree and post a patch for the ABI docs.
>>
>> An interface that is useful to the user is better than one that is not.
>
> The interface is useful.
Not 100% useful.
If you are going to claim that 99% true is not true, then useful but
inconsistent is not useful.
I think it is useful, and I think it can be consistent if we want it to.
> There are plenty of machines out there that
> disable the backlight at minimum brightness setting (see every Apple,
> for example), and assuming otherwise has always been incorrect. But,
> like I said, send the patch.
The key word in "every Apple" is *every*; what level 0 does in every
apple is consistent. If 0 should turn off the screen, it should do so
on all Linux machines.
I will investigate and prepare an update to the documentation and the
quirks to do so.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-01 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-29 19:20 [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A Felipe Contreras
2013-07-29 20:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-29 20:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-29 20:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-29 21:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-30 3:11 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-30 3:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-30 5:51 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-30 5:57 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-30 13:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-30 20:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-30 23:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-31 0:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 1:36 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-31 2:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 2:22 ` Aaron Lu
2013-08-01 18:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 5:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-31 11:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 14:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-31 17:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 17:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-31 18:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 18:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-01 17:37 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-01 17:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-01 17:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-08-01 18:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-01 18:11 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2013-08-01 23:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 1:59 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-31 2:09 ` Felipe Contreras
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-20 22:16 Vincent Blut
2013-10-21 1:53 ` Aaron Lu
2013-10-21 21:21 ` Vincent Blut
2013-10-22 2:16 ` Aaron Lu
2013-10-22 2:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-23 15:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-23 19:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-24 0:53 ` Matthew Garrett
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