Hi! > > Some BIOSs erroneously reverse the _PRT SourceName and the > > SourceIndex. Detect and repair this problem. MS ACPI also allows > > and repairs this problem, thus ACPICA must also. > > It would be great to have an interface to report this as a BIOS defect. > > Something like: > > FIRMWARE_BUG_ON(FIRM_WARN, "erroneously reversed the _PRT source_name", ACPI_ > Bug); > > FIRMWARE_BUG_ON(severity, description, component); Yes, please. I'd also like HARDWARE_BUG_ON(), with similar usage. With all the preload-linux-on-foo project, we have some chance to make BIOS vendors fix their stuff if we can easily diagnose errors in there. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
