On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Monday, July 15, 2013 09:31:27 AM Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > On Monday, July 15, 2013 01:43:57 PM oliver@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > Some BIOSes change hardware based on the state of > > > > a laptop's lid. If the lid is closed, the touchpad is > > > > disabled and the checksum changes. Windows 8 no longer > > > > aborts resume if the checksum has changed. > > > > > > I expect more machines will show up and ignore s4_hardware_signature > > > if Windows does not check it and we should do the same. > > > > Windows *8* does not check. But what about older versions? Maybe this > > needs to be guarded by verifying the firmware requested windows-8 mode? > > I would not make it too complicated. > Sticking to the latest Windows version should be enough for this one. > What bad should happen if we still try to resume and fail... Hmm, why was that check added in the first place? If it is useless, removing it for good is fine. If it is _not_ useless, we should still do the checking when not operating in windows-8 firmware mode. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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
