On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:54:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But the issue here is that on a "legacy PC", we can't just say "ACPI > doesn't mention this device, so it can't exist". Because in a legacy PC > model, that simply isn't true. All those motherboard devices can easily > exist (and do!) even if ACPI/PnP don't mention them. I think that's true except in the case where the Leading Other OS won't use a device unless it's present in ACPI - that kind of enforcement tends to concentrate vendors' minds, even if they'd otherwise be busy filling data tables with garbage. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
