Matthew Garrett wrote: > I'm really unenthusiastic about this. The majority of use cases appear > to be people working around Linux bugs and never reporting the bugs to > us, leaving everybody worse off. I can't judge the technical quality of the patch, but I don't think the social side of it is a problem (assuming I correctly understood the change in question). Case in point: I reported a problem[0] with the thermal/fan subsystems which was left unanswered and forced me to recompile kernels with overridden DSDTs for every new release expecting a fix and eventually replace the laptop in question. I'm obviously not demanding that my problem be solved, but the point is that not all problems can be solved in a timely fashion even when they are reported (for whatever reason: lack of manpower, lack of test machines, etc), so avoiding this change which could ease the testing of new DSDTs seems a bit sadistic. :) Another point of view to the same argument is that the current situation doesn't guarantee feedback either. The added hassle of needing a recompile doesn't IMHO necessarily mean users report these sort of problems. Just my technically inapt 0,2 €. :) Cheers [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/37612 -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- 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
