* Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Yes. There's no harm really from working around a BIOS bug and warning about it - when the BIOS gets fixed the warning message will go away. Btw., few people risk upgrading their BIOSen on already purchased hardware. I almost never do it, i only do it if it's impossible to continue with a current BIOS. Thanks, Ingo -- 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
