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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:47:24 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:07:57PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> If we can make the software behave consistently for 99% of the
> machines out there instead of only 90%, that's better.

If we can't make an interface 100% consistent, we shouldn't pretend that 
the interface is 100% consistent. We can't, and so we don't. Setting a 
backlight value of 0 may turn the screen off, and userspace needs to 
deal with that.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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