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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: update win8 OSI blacklist
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 18:27:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s33CByGsRz7vsNAoOLnbEMY+fz73NzHJq07BzSuCEGJUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131006205928.GA20296@srcf.ucam.org>

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 03:51:05PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 03:40:42PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> >
>> >> In case you didn't hear, the plan was to add an entry if a user
>> >> reports the backlight not working correctly, and acpi_osi="!Windows
>> >> 2012" fixing it with no negative effects. and that's what users did in
>> >> bug #60682.
>> >
>> > So add that to each entry you're adding to the list.
>>
>> No. These entries are already there, I'm merely updating it. I added a
>> comment before the list, but the comment was removed.
>
> There's no point in having a comment that describes a list, because
> someone will inevitably reorder them or insert things in between at some
> point. Add a comment per entry.

>From acpi_osi_dmi_table:

/*
* BIOS invocation of _OSI(Linux) is almost always a BIOS bug.
* Linux ignores it, except for the machines enumerated below.
*/

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-06 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-03 17:13 [PATCH] acpi: update win8 OSI blacklist Felipe Contreras
2013-10-03 17:22 ` Felipe Contreras
     [not found]   ` <CAANYUdCUg4GM5YX8KkokgqBGaUJjrtcHrkWaQEyhxUcivYnqMQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-10-19  2:30     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-04 16:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-06 20:29   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-06 20:33     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-06 20:40       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-06 20:45         ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-06 20:51           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-06 20:59             ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-06 23:27               ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2013-10-06 23:31                 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-06 23:36                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-06 23:57                     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-07  0:27                       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-07  0:32                         ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-07  0:50                           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-07  0:53                             ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-07  1:01                               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-07  1:27                                 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-10-07  1:54                                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-10-07  2:21                                     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-07  2:13                                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-14  3:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-14 11:58   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-10-14 13:14     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-14 14:16       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-10-14 23:04         ` Felipe Contreras

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