On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 10:47 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:35 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 16:57 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > > > Maybe it it is an idea to build a whitelist for machines which do > > > have working ACPI lid support? I realize maintaining such a list is > > > a pain, but this way people who care and are lucky enough to have actually > > > working hardware can at least use this ? > > > > It's an idea, but not one I'd do. Either a whitelist or a blacklist > > would be oppressively large. > > I suppose a whitelist has the advantage that it can't hurt anything > compared to the current state, and no matter how short it is, it > benefits *some* people. Oh, and depending on how it was implemented, it would provide a way for competent users to manually add their own systems to the whitelist and enable lid state functionality if they were happy with its performance on their particular system; right now there's no way you can say 'no, really, the lid switch works on my system, please use it'. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
