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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fcr@adinet.com.uy,
	"3.8+" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI/Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:04:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140114160444.GA4307@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1388648277-23453-1-git-send-email-tianyu.lan@intel.com>

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:37:57PM +0800, Lan Tianyu wrote:
> The aml method _BIX of NEC LZ750/LS returns a broken package which
> skip the first member "Revision" according ACPI 5.0 spec Table 10-234.

Why don't we just ignore an invalid _BIX and fall back to _BIF? That 
seems more reasonable than setting a precedent for fixing up invalid 
data.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-14 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-02  7:37 [PATCH] ACPI/Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS Lan Tianyu
2014-01-03 19:01 ` Leandro Dorileo
2014-01-03 23:12   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-01-06 14:07     ` Lan Tianyu
2014-01-06 14:32       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-06 14:20         ` Lan Tianyu
2014-01-14 16:04 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]

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