On Tuesday, 21 of October 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:01:55PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Moreover, as soon as the real fix is developed we can remove the DMI list. > > Quite frankly, I don't see any downsides. > > The downside is that with the DMI list there's significantly less > incentive to produce a "real" fix (assuming there is one). I really don't think it works this way. As long as there only are a few machines in the list, the incentive is very small in either case. However, as the number of machines in the list grows, it will produce pressure to fix things. [That's exactly what happened in the case of the Turion-based HP BIOS issue.] > We've no idea how many other systems may be affected in one way or another. Yes, and the list may help us to get an idea IMO. -- 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
