I like this much better. Probably should drop the colon, so it looks something like: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness I leave the question as to whether this is an actual firmware bug to you guys. Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: Matthew Garrett [mailto:mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 8:28 AM >To: Moore, Robert >Cc: Zhang, Rui; Brown, Len; linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Thomas Renninger >Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI video: fix a poor error message > >On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:24:25AM -0700, Moore, Robert wrote: >> Do we agree that the original message is unclear? >> >> I'm not even sure that ACPI requires this method. > >Indeed, it's not actually on the list of required methods. > >> Perhaps the message should describe what won't happen because of the >missing _BQC method. > >Perhaps just "No _BQC method: Unable to determine initial brightness"? > >-- >Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
