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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:04:44 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI/Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:37:57PM +0800, Lan Tianyu wrote:
> The aml method _BIX of NEC LZ750/LS returns a broken package which
> skip the first member "Revision" according ACPI 5.0 spec Table 10-234.

Why don't we just ignore an invalid _BIX and fall back to _BIF? That 
seems more reasonable than setting a precedent for fixing up invalid 
data.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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