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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux"
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:49:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080112154916.6bca2395@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080112022348.GC27524@khazad-dum.debian.net>

> Now, what should we do about it?  Add a quirk to always define the Linux OSI
> string on ThinkPads (based on DMI information)?  All IBM ones (which won't
> have BIOS revisions anymore, anyway) deal well with it, and Lenovo ones
> seem to benefit from it.

If Lenovo systems do the right thing then I guess submit a patch which
checks for a DMI identifier string for Lenovo and if so don't lie to the
ACPI interpreter.

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-12  2:23 Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux" Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-12  9:16 ` Len Brown
2008-01-12 20:23   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-13 16:58   ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-13 23:41     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-14  0:35       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-14  1:50         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-14  1:57           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-14  2:03             ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-14 13:06               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-12 15:49 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-01-14  0:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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