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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Brown <john.brown3@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI suspend: Blacklist HP xw4600 Workstation for old code ordering
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:05:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810151605.35883.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081015085809.GA1061@srcf.ucam.org>

On Wednesday, 15 of October 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:54:06PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > 
> > ACPI suspend: Blacklist HP xw4600 Workstation for old code ordering
> > 
> > HP xw4600 Workstation is known to require the "old" (ie. compatible
> > with ACPI 1.0) suspend code ordering, so blacklist it for this
> > purpose.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be scaling especially well. The xw4600 is a new 
> machine, so if it needs the "old" code ordering then that's a strong 
> indication that we're doing something wrong.

No, sorry.

> I think trying to work out what would be more useful than just adding it to
> a blacklist. 

Well, machines that require the "old" ordering are simply broken, because
you just can't assume that specific devices are not in D3 before you
execute _PTS.

IOW, we aren't doing anything wrong and the BIOS is buggy.

Thanks,
Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-14 20:54 [PATCH] ACPI suspend: Blacklist HP xw4600 Workstation for old code ordering Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-15  8:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-15 14:05   ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2008-10-15 14:15     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-15 20:35       ` Brown, John M (WGBU R&D)
2008-10-15 21:49         ` Len Brown
2008-10-15 22:00           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-16 17:01             ` Brown, John M (WGBU R&D)
2008-10-16 19:31               ` Len Brown
2008-10-15 21:20       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-11-22 11:11         ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-11-22 12:56           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-16  9:13   ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-16  9:12 ` Pavel Machek
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     [not found] ` <fa.TMVI/3KJQDTBIWAfYmLw01GczF4@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa./GCX/x0zwCB6BIEvtQehNpVDSVk@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]     ` <fa.MkpTJy5Iw9ZR3PXWpugQeK5oN1o@ifi.uio.no>
2008-10-17  4:07       ` Robert Hancock

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