Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753410AbbH0REj (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:04:39 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-f45.google.com ([209.85.213.45]:36095 "EHLO mail-vk0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751329AbbH0REh (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:04:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55DF3BA7.7070909@hp.com> References: <1440606024-29873-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1440606024-29873-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1440623522.14237.57.camel@hp.com> <1440625466.14237.62.camel@hp.com> <55DF21FC.8020106@hp.com> <55DF2E26.30701@hp.com> <55DF3BA7.7070909@hp.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:04:36 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition From: Dan Williams To: Linda Knippers Cc: Toshi Kani , Rafael J Wysocki , Robert Moore , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , Linux ACPI , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 15 On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Linda Knippers wrote: > I know this seems like a nit but we've going to live with this stuff for > a long time. Along those lines, Bob just came by my office and gave me a decisive argument that I think trumps my ABI concerns, and one I'd be willing to argue for 4.2 inclusion. Some BIOS implementers may do the work to get the polarity correct others may just read the flag name and get it wrong. Once that happens the field loses all meaning regardless of whether Linux interprets it correctly. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/