On Saturday, 5 of January 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:30:30PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Yes, but we have quite a lot of systems working with the current code, so > > I'd like to give them a chance to use the post-1.0 ordering (just in case). Just to clarify: I'm going to change the default to the pre-2.0 ordering and add a boot option for switching the post-1.0 ordering. > If the vast majority of systems have never been vendor-tested with the > alternative ordering, then I don't see what it buys us. 1. Possibility to test the alternative ordering without hacking and recompiling the kernel. 2. Compatibility with future systems that will use the new odering. > We've a demonstrable case here of it causing a regression. Correct, but if the default is changed, I don't see a problem with leaving an option to do that. Thanks, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
