Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> Also, for polling mode to work on Acers, we need >> to insert a delay. >> > > Can we, in the future, always trigger any such performance damaging "fixups" > based on DMI white/black lists? As a rule? > Poll mode is not supposed to be entered on any non-broken HW. The fact that it happens now with Thinkpads at suspend is a bug. EC region should not be accessed with interrupts of GPEs disabled. > This is not the first time I see a vendor push broken crap, and everyone > else who did it right get the shaft, because people don't like to add > quirks to common code. We get performance enhancement features disabled, > mdelays added... > > And for the do-as-windows-does crowd, they do it on vendorissued device > drivers, which obviously don't hork everyone else's devices. Our equivalent > solution is to key things to DMI matches. This is worth keeping in mind, > because the ACPI subsystem seems to be a common target for such bad > behaviour. > > _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
