Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:57:16PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
year (I think the info is available, right?) We could
default to strict for systems with year >= 2009. This may still prevent
users from getting the best out of their system, but at least won't
cause a regression for users of older systems where the native driver
has been used so far. I know it's not an ideal solution, but ACPI
implementations aren't ideal either.
The problem with this approach is that we still end up with a large
number of malfunctioning machines. Really, I don't think there's any way
to handle this other than defaulting to strict, letting the default be
changed at run and boot time and printing a message when a driver is
refused permission to bind. Distributions that want to obtain the
previous behaviour can change the default back.
For the record we have changed the default to strict in Fedora's
development branch, for 2 weeks or so now, including in the recently
released Fedora 11 release and we've had 0 complaints so far.
Regards,
Hans
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