Re: [PATCH 2/3 v6] ACPI: allow longer device IDs

Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-28T21:54:58Z

Hi Andy,

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:28 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> My point is that this is clear abuse of the spec and:
> 1) we have to enable the broken, because it is already in the wild with
> the comment that this is an issue
>
> AND
>
> 2) issue an ECR / work with MS to make sure they understand the problem.
>
> This can be done in parallel. What I meant as a prerequisite is to start doing
> 2) while we have 1) on table.

Oh, okay, that makes sense. If you want to get (2) going, by all means
go for it. I have no idea how to do this myself; Ard said something
about joining the UEFI forum as an individual something or another but
I don't think I'm the man for the job there. Is this something that
Intel can do with their existing membership (is that the right term?)
at the UEFI forum? Or maybe a Microsoft engineer on the list?

From my side, regarding (1), I'm basically just waiting for Rafael's
"Acked-by" (or an explicit nack) so I can put this in my tree and move
on.

Jason