On Monday, March 03, 2008 9:49 pm Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:43:07AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:25:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > What is the guarantee that the names of these slots are correct and do > > > not happen to be the same as the hotpluggable ones? > > > > That would be a bug -- and yes, bugs happen, and we have to deal with > > them. > > My main concern is that BIOS vendors will not fix these bugs, as no > other OS cares/does this kind of thing today. The ammount of bad > information out there might be quite large, and I think this was > confirmed by some initial testing of IBM systems, right? Yeah, but there's a flip side to this too: if no one uses the data, no one will complain when it's wrong. If Linux starts making it easy to see this stuff, there's a chance system vendors will start taking an extra 5 min. before shipment to make sure that the BIOS info is up to date... OTOH, I'm not sure which is worse, bad data or no data. Jesse -- 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
