From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757552AbYALPwB (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:52:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751918AbYALPvx (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:51:53 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:52992 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751613AbYALPvw (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:51:52 -0500 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:49:16 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux" Message-ID: <20080112154916.6bca2395@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080112022348.GC27524@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20080112022348.GC27524@khazad-dum.debian.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.3; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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