Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops - critical temperature shutdown

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 11:38:33AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > Not all BIOSes would support this, so we'd need to support the Windows 
> > > workarounds anyway. At that point, there's no real benefit in having 
> > > multiple codepaths.
> > 
> > Sorry, but I will disagree.
> > 
> > Anything that can help in the future with the vendors that are better at
> > Linux support is a good thing.  You are right that we will still have to
> > deal with the others, but there are such things as vendor-specific windows
> > workarounds (they didn't want to change their firmware, or they couldn't, or
> > the others didn't care to add the workaround, etc).  If that vendor uses the
> > "NotWindows" OSI correctly, we would not need to take any special action.
> 
> Allowing vendors to special-case Linux means that we have to have a 
> special-case path for the minority of vendors who ask for this. It's 
> added complexity and we don't actually gain anything from it.

Correction: special case ALL non-windows.  There's a reason why I said
ACPICA should provide OSI(NonWindows).

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