On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > We can't trust BIOS authors to get things right. Where we can reliably > > fix up things that are broken, we should do so. > > How about if we can get a BIOS fix for this brand new system, > then we shall not clutter the kernel with a workaround, > otherwise we shall. It's a pretty good rule of thumb that if a BIOS bug is present in one BIOS it's present in others, but the users will just never notice. -- 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