From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:04:44 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Lan Tianyu Cc: lenb@kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fcr@adinet.com.uy, "3.8+" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI/Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS Message-ID: <20140114160444.GA4307@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1388648277-23453-1-git-send-email-tianyu.lan@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1388648277-23453-1-git-send-email-tianyu.lan@intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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