On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > The DSDT can't be updated without the BIOS being updated, and the DMI > information gives us a BIOS version string that can be matched against > if a fixed version is ever released. I'd be in favour of doing it with > DMI on the grounds that it's how we already handle machine-specific > quirks rather than adding new code to do it. Is the DMI ID *guaranteed* to be changed with an update to the DSDT? Anyway, you cannot imply from a given DMI ID a broken DSDT is present, so you will have to repeat the experience of adding another DMI ID whenever a user hits this broken DSDT with another piece of hardware. As long as you are able to pull this piece of information from that user, that is... Maciej -- 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
