On 03/24/2015 03:02 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 03:24:12 PM Matt Fleming wrote: While I agree in general, one comment. We haven't decided about the patch yet. We may decide to bump up the _REV to 6 when ACPI 6 is out instead.
I'd be happy with this too.
That said the whole using of _REV to special case Linux is broken by design and should be stopped immediately. Especially when it is done by comparing the return value of _REV to a specific number (like 5 or 3). Rafael
Yes, it's been made clear to me that this shouldn't be used in the future. I've shared that feedback to my BIOS architecture team. -- 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
